31, High Street

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/105 (South side) 13/09/72 No.31

GV II

House with shop. Earlier C19. Doulting ashlar stonework, roof not visible behind tall parapet, brick chimney stacks. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays. Panelled pilasters, deep moulded cornice, cornice, plain parapet. Later C20 shop front across ground floor, with pair of doors in central angled recess, with no fascia as such. Above, plain openings with sash windows, 12-pane to first floor and 9-pane to second floor, the central upper window being a dummy. Modern projecting sign between bays 2 and 3, first floor. INTERIOR: the ground floor totally remodelled to form shop, but on first floor the front rooms have ceiling cornices and Regency window surrounds with shutters, stairs from first to second floor of early C19, arranged on a curved plan, original partitions and doors at this latter level, and a mid C19 fireplace in the east room, to the rear a 12-pane Yorkshire horizontal sash window.

Listing NGR: ST5492045689