25, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/100 (South side) 12/11/53 No.25

GV II

Includes: No.53 SOUTH STREET. Shop with house over, formerly a public house, with warehouse to rear. c1840. Doulting stone ashlar, hipped Welsh slate roof behind tall parapet. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, single bay. C20 shop front with door in deep recess to right, with incised flanking pilaster strips and partly concealed cornice to very slim fascia. First floor has a 16-pane sash window with simple architrave and moulded flat hood on console brackets, second floor has a smaller 16-pane sash window in plain ashlar, all flanked by end pilaster strips with incised line decoration, cornice and plain parapet. INTERIOR: ground floor modified to form shop. C19 toplit staircase to house over having turned newels, stick balusters and deal handrail (ground to first floor section removed). SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: No.53 South Street to rear, a C19 two-storey warehouse with King-post roof, slate covered, on stone rubble and part rendered walls. Early C19 bonded cellars below shop, house and warehouse with brick vaults and remaining stone bins.

Listing NGR: ST5494645697