Attached Walls, Railings And Privy To Numbers 28 And 28A Hillside Wellsway

CREWKERNE

ST4309 ABBEY STREET 876-1/6/13 (North side) 06/09/74 Nos.28 AND 28A Wellsway (No.28), Hillside (No.28A), & attached walls, railings and privy

GV II

House, now 2 dwellings. C17, refronted and internally remodelled early C19. MATERIALS: Ham Hill stone ashlar facade and coursed limestone rubble to the rest; double-pitched, hipped slate roof with brick stacks to each end of the ridge and to end walls. PLAN: double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, symmetrical 5-window range. Flat stone arches; first-floor windows are 3/6-pane sashes, those to the ground floor are 6/6-panes, all in rendered reveals. The central doorcase is Regency-style, with reeded jambs and lintel, roundel-blocks to the corners, and a small projecting cornice. No.28 (Wellsway) occupies the 2 bays to the right and the right return, where there are three C20 windows to the first floor, a C20 garage entrance to the far right, and to the inside-right a c1840 six-panel door, glazed to the top 4 panels, with panelled reveals and a C20 porch. INTERIOR of No.28A (Hillside) to the left has a stone-flagged hall and an open-well, open-string staircase with a swept mahogany rail, stick balusters and a turned newel to the rear; above it is a margin-paned skylight with diagonal bars to the centre. The ground floor has 6-panel doors with added reeded moulding to the panels, some Regency-style fire surrounds with late C19 grates to the ground floor and mid C19 cast-iron arch-plate register grates and 4-panel doors to the first floor. Stone steps lead to the cellar which is lias stone-flagged with a drainage channel, 2 chamfered cross beams, that to the right has wrought-iron hooks and rests on a lower axial beam; the rear right-hand corner against No.28 has a heavy chamfered beam supporting rough joists and wide limewashed hardwood boards. An exposed roof truss to the right has a king post with diagonal struts. (INTERIOR of No.28 not inspected). SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: A Ham Hill rubblestone revetment wall is attached to the right (south-west) corner; level to the top, it increases in height as it curves downhill to the left, enclosing a front garden and supporting spearhead railings with urn finials; double gates are close to the house, at the base of steps up to garden level. A high Flemish-bond brick wall, rubblestone to the outer face with Ham Hill stone coping, is attached to the left-hand side of the house to front and encloses a rear garden approx 30m square to the rear right corner of which is a rubblestone privy.

Listing NGR: ST4393909874