21, New Street

WELLS

662-1/6/187 NEW STREET 13-SEP-1972 (West side) 21

GV II

GV II House. Early C19 refronting of C16 house. Rendered and colourwashed over rubble, triple roll clay tiled roof with high coped gable to south, and continuation to north over No.23 (qv) , brick chimney stacks. One-unit plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2 bays. Plinth. Ground floor has 12-pane sash windows in plain openings, first floor has 2-light cross-glazed casement windows. Entrance between bays, a part-glazed door on heavy frame, with timber hood on brackets. Small pointed arch attic window in south gable end. INTERIOR: VAG report notes C16 open fireplace with scratch-moulded flanking cupboards to right, winder stair to rear; stack to left, probably inserted into former passage with beam morticed for former partition to right; 3-bay roof with notched tenoned apexes, 2 tiers of in-line tenoned purlins and cranked tenoned collars. (Hale B: Vernacular Architecture Group. Report: 1993-)

Listing NGR: ST5493146182