9, High Street

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/85 (South side) 13/09/72 No.9

GV II

House with shop, now shop with offices over. Mid C18. Ashlar stone painted, hipped Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays of which bays 2 and 3 project. Shallow plinth, band course with simple panels under first-floor windows as well as sill band course-partly missing bays 2 and 3-moulded cornice and parapets with decorative panels, these last very worn. Ground floor has 4-panel door to bay 1, with plain square fanlight, set in moulded architrave with moulded flat hood on console brackets, bays 2 and 3 have large C20 doorway to supermarket. First-floor windows are 12-pane sashes in moulded architraves with slightly pitched hoods on console brackets, second-floor windows smaller 12-pane sashes in architraves, only bay 1 moulded, with small console brackets under sills, no hoods. INTERIOR: ground floor absorbed into supermarket, but first-floor rooms retain some ceiling cornices despite new partitioning, window shutters and under panels survive. Stairs to second floor of C18 date, rooms on this floor slightly modified, no features of note in attic.

Listing NGR: ST5496745728