The Hollies and Hollies Cottage and Attached Boundary Wall and Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House.
The Hollies and Hollies Cottage and Attached Boundary Wall and Gateway
- WRENN ID
- fossil-mantel-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Hollies and Hollies Cottage and Attached Boundary Wall and Gateway, 14, New Street, Wells, BA5 2LQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 549 461
- Coordinates
- 51.21233, -2.64609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hollies and Hollies Cottage form a house at the north end of a row, dating to the late 18th century, with some earlier fabric to the rear. The main house is built with a rubble core, rendered over, and has Welsh slate mansard roofs with hips on the south side and a coped gable to the north. Rendered chimney stacks are present.
The plan comprises a one-room, double-depth unit to the left, brought forward to the right is a single room with an entrance hall and staircase, backed by a long, narrow wing which incorporates Hollies Cottage.
The exterior is two storeys with attics, and has two bays with a single bay projection. It includes a plinth, cornice, plain parapet, and sash windows in plain architraves, with 12 panes below and 9 panes above. There is a front entrance in the projection, with a six-panel door and plain architrave. Segmental-arched roof dormers are present, the one above the projection having a nine-pane segmental top sash window, while others have two-light casement windows. A double gable is visible to the north, and a lower two-storey extension is positioned to the rear.
Inside, the entrance hall features a fine 18th-century dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and open treads, and a rosette-decorated cornice. The front left-hand room has a marble pilastered fireplace, decorative frieze and cornice, and panelled double doors lead to the rear room, which exhibits an Adamesque fireplace and a palmette frieze with cornice. The rear room to the right has rough beams, possibly dating from the 17th or early 18th century, and a three-panel door. The first floor includes several early two-panel doors. On the second floor, the back room has a 16-pane sash window. Most of the sash windows have shutters. The rear wing, slated with two brick stacks, incorporates Hollies Cottage, which contains pegged roof trusses, one lower room with two large chamfered beams, and a cellar with a brick barrel vault.
A length of stone rubble boundary wall extends from the north-west corner, rising as high as the first-floor sills, with a plain end pier and stone coping. It has a small gateway with a boarded door, which forms an important element of the street scene.
Local climate
The Hollies and Hollies Cottage and Attached Boundary Wall and Gateway receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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