Box Bush Cottage

WELLS

ST5445 SADLER STREET 662-1/7/234 (West side) No.25A Box Bush Cottage

GV II

House attached to rear and formerly part of No.25 (qv). Rubble and pantile. Some C17 internal fabric, refronted late C18 or early C19, substantially restored late C20. 2-room single-depth plan with central staircase, and symmetrical front. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows with two 12-pane replacement sashes flanking a blind opening above a flat canted bay and 16-pane sash with central C19 part-glazed door. INTERIOR: the ground floor retains 3 rough deep-chamfered beams, and the room to the left has a deep niche, possibly a former window opening; the renewed winder staircase includes a part-glazed screen removed from a chapel in Union Street. At the head of the stair is an C18 fielded 3-panel door. The first floor has small bressumer fireplace, with segmental head and stopped ends, and further rough beams. The upper winder stair is of the early fabric, and the 3-bay roof has heavy tie-beams with late C20 steel props, and one purlin.

Listing NGR: ST5491245859