59 And 61, High Street

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/129 (South side) 13/09/72 Nos.59 AND 61 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (South side) No.59)

GV II

House on curved corner site, with shop. Early C18. Rendered and colourwashed, Welsh slate roof on curve, hipped at west end, shortened brick chimney stacks; No.61 has clay pantiled roof between abutments. EXTERIOR: No.59 three-storey, 3 bays, No.61 two storeys, 2 bays. No.59 has largely C19 shop front to ground floor, with 3 display windows, one subdivided, flanked by narrow pilasters, under slim fascia with thin wide projection timber cornice, preferable double doors in centre of curve replaced with late C20 door and sidelight. Upper floors have 12-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars. No.61 mostly a C20 rebuild, with C20 windows, that to lower bay 1 in apparent old position, then a blocked centre door and new part-glazed door to right, to first floor are a metal casement and a 12-pane sash window. Ground floor of No.59 modified for shop, access to upper floors now through No.61. INTERIOR: stair from first to second floor, hardwood handrail, turned newel and stick balusters, probably original. First floor partitions altered, but second floor partitions and door cases remain, as does an early C19 fireplace with cast-iron hearth.

Listing NGR: ST5479945636