38, High Street

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/110 (North side) 12/11/53 No.38

GV II

House, now shop. Mid C19, front altered C20. Bath stone ashlar, hipped Welsh slate roof behind high parapet, render brick chimney stack. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 bays. Later C20 Shop front across whole of ground floor between two plain pilasters, with cornice and parapet above, central double doors in angled recess, deep fascia under timber cornice. First floor has large 12-pane sash windows in architraves with flat hoods over, second floor has 9-pane sashes with architraves only. Side elevation to Union Street rendered and colourwashed, with vehicle entrance to bay 1 and 12-pane sash window ground floor bay 2, other lower window now blind, mostly 12-pane sash windows above in 6 random bays, some modified, and with some C20 casements and steel windows. Plain rendered gable to rear. INTERIOR: the ground floor totally modernised, basement has series of brick arched vaults on cast-iron bearers, first floor stripped, but second floor has C19 partitions and doorways, two mid C19 fireplaces and a good cupboard unit.

Listing NGR: ST5486545700