55, High Street

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/125 (South side) 13/09/72 No.55

GV II

House at end of row, with shop. Mid C18. Painted brick front, rubble returns, slate roof, brick stacks. A narrow-frontage property with return flank to Mill Street, and gabled rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 2 windows; central raking dormer with slate cheeks to a 4-pane sash, above 9-pane and plain sashes, all to brick voussoirs with stone key, and with V-joint stone quoins at either end of the front. The ground floor has an early C20 Art Nouveau shop-front with deep-set door off-centre, right, and curved returns to the plate display windows, in very thin mullions with bases and capitals, and decorative fretted heads, all to a deep fascia with reeded cornice, and pilasters to heavy consoles to pedimented heads. Main stack to the right, but further full-height brick stack built in to the rubble of the rear gable, which has coping and small kneelers. The 3-storey return to Mill Street has, towards the left end, in brick dressings, 9 above 12 and 12-pane sashes, and a C19 six-panel door. INTERIOR: not generally inspected; a C19 straight-flight staircase, with square newels, rises from the shop floor. The delicately detailed display front is a notable survival.

Listing NGR: ST5484245631