8, Tucker Street

WELLS

ST5545 TUCKER STREET 662-1/5/347 (North side) No.8

GV II

House in row. Early C17, modified late C20. Rendered rubble, pantile roof. PLAN: small 2-room cross-passage plan; ground floor opened to one space, extensions to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window range. 3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows with drip moulds. Ground-floor late C19 shop window with central doorway. Coped verges, gable stacks. INTERIOR: ground floor retains a fine dressed limestone chamfered 4-centred arched fireplace in rubble walling to left gable end, and much worn stone spiral staircase. The ceiling in this half reported as having central chamfered beam carrying early floor joists, all concealed by late C20 plastered ceiling; a pair of beams said to frame the cross passage, but neither visible. Rear wall to the right mainly removed, and upper wall carried on boxed steel joists. The upper level restructured after fire damage, c1985. An early survival of interest in this part of the city, the small casement windows to the upper storey and the steep roof pitch clearly indicating early provenance. (Hale B: Vernacular Architecture Group Report: 1989-).

Listing NGR: ST5448845585