Boundary Walls To Tower House

The boundary walls to Tower House, located on St Andrew Street in Wells, are likely from the late 14th century and may incorporate parts of the original wall. The walls are constructed of random stone rubble. On the left side, adjacent to Vicars' Close, the wall stands approximately 2.75 meters high and lacks a coping. It extends about 10 meters and features a plank gate with a concrete lintel. Next, there are a pair of square ashlar gate-piers, each about 400 millimeters square, set on plinths with square capping moulds and pyramidal tops, supporting late 20th-century gates that are approximately 3 meters wide.

To the right, the wall is about 2 meters high and has a rounded rendered capping that sweeps up over a plank gate beneath a segmental brick arch, topped with weathered stone coping. The wall continues to the right, curving in a quadrant towards The Liberty, where it reaches a height of approximately 2.75 to 3 meters, again sweeping up about 1 meter and featuring stone coping opposite the north end of the house. Near the right-hand end, there is another plank door under a segmental brick head. The wall ends at a square pier similar to those on the south side. It continues behind this pier across the north end of the garden, connecting to the walls at the rear of Vicars' Close.

Most of this boundary was well established by the late medieval period and is significant in the setting of Tower House and the streetscape at this important point in the city.