8, Broad Street

WELLS

ST5445 BROAD STREET 662-1/7/12 (West side) 13/09/72 No.8 (Formerly Listed as: BROAD STREET Nos.2-12)

GV II

Shop with house over, in row. Mid C19. Rendered with plain pilaster strips, Welsh slate roof continued both sides, brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 bays. C20 shop front to ground floor, with central doorway, with yard gateway to right having pained moulded stone architrave and a pair of later C20 iron gates. Upper floors have 12-pane sash windows in plain openings. Bracket for hanging sign between bays at first floor level. INTERIOR: not inspected. Part of the development which took place when Broad Street (formerly Wette or Water Lane) was widened between 1835-1849. Included for group value. (Bentley JB and Murless BJ: Somerset Roads: Phase 2, Eastern Somerset: Taunton: 1987-).

Listing NGR: ST5480145617