13, High Street

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/89 (South side) 13/09/72 No.13

GV II

House with shop, now shop with offices over. Late C18. Brick with ashlar stonework dressings, all painted, Welsh slate covered Mansard roof behind parapet. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, single wide bay. Plain pilasters, cornice, tall plain parapet. Ground floor later C20, with 2-light display window to supermarket, and on right a plain doorway with 6- panel door. Across the whole facade a projecting fascia with moulded top surmounted by small wrought-iron railings, to first and second floors a shallow angled bay window, with 3 four-pane sashes to first floor and with 16-pane sashes to second floor, the bay being carried up to top of parapet level. Dormer window with slightly segmental roof behind parapet. INTERIOR: ground-floor totally modified, but there is a good ceiling cornice to the front first-floor room, and the stairs from first to second-floor, with turned balusters. The front second--floor room retains a Regency dado and doorcase (but with modern door). Little of interest on attic floor.

Listing NGR: ST5495245724