Number 92 And Attached Piers And Gates

WELLS

ST5446 ST THOMAS STREET 662-1/6/292 (South side) No.92 and attached piers and gates

GV II

House at end of row, possibly former farmhouse. C17; extensive C18 re-structuring, especially main range to street. Rendered and colourwashed, clay pantiled roof with stepped coped east gable, continuation to west, brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. PLAN: a single depth cross-passage front range, both rooms heated; a straight-flight staircase runs parallel with and immediately right of the passage, and beyond the left-hand room is a smaller room, also with stack. To the rear, left, is a long, lower wing, probably of the C17 or C18, continued as a barn. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays, but windows to bays 2 and 3 blocked up, leaving only sills. Bay 1 has 2-light mullioned casement window below and an 8-pane sash window with exposed boxes above, lower bay 2 has a 6-panel door in recess, with moulded architrave and semicircular timber hood over. Plain east gable, with 5-light C20 casement window to ground floor. Lower extension southwards at rear, 3 bays, with C20 doorways below, but above there is a 3-light horizontal -bar casement window of 2-lights to bay 2 and 3-light to bay 3. This range has a coped outer gable, but is hipped at the inner end, facing the roof of the main range; there is large ridge stack near the street end. The rear of the street range has four 3-light casement flat-roofed dormers above two 12-pane sashes and a paired 12-pane with mullion box and to a cambered brick head at first floor. At ground floor is a tripartite 8:12:8-pane sash and a 16-pane sash, separated by a C20 door, the last two under a glazed conservatory. The barn has a hipped roof, part of which continues as a porch to a door at the end of the wing; the barn was largely restructured in the late C20. INTERIOR: the passage is stone-flagged. The right-hand room has an Adamesque fireplace and a deep recess to elliptical head, the left room has chimney breast with blocked fireplace, which is opened to the kitchen beyond. These rooms have panelled window shutters. There are some 4- and 6-panel doors. Under the right-hand room is a basement with a wide segmental brick vault, approached by a straight flight of stone steps under the main stair. The upper floors and the wing were not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: on the north-east corner of the house a small pedestrian gate, then a pair of late C19 boarded gates with brick gate piers having stone bands and moulded caps. The pavement crossing and the first part of the drive are in granite setts.

Listing NGR: ST5555246169