23, High Street

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/98 (South side) 13/09/72 No.23

GV II

House with shop. Late C18. Brick with stone dressings, all colourwashed, roof not visible behind parapet. Right-angle plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, single bay. Plain mid C20 shop front to ground floor, with fairly deep fascia, doorway on left. First floor has tripartite sash window of 4+12+4 square panes to first floor, apparently under a timber lintel, and to second floor a 12-pane sash window in plain opening with stone sill and gauged brick flat arch, set under moulded stone cornice and plain parapet. INTERIOR: long narrow 2-room, with central timber winder staircase, some stick balusters remaining, otherwise no original detail visible. Roof covering reputed to have been replaced 1992.

Listing NGR: ST5493745708