Harwood Cottage

WELLS

ST5446 ST THOMAS STREET 662-1/6/273 (North side) No.23 Harwood Cottage

GV II

House in row. Late C16, modified C18 and later. Rendered and colourwashed, triple-roll clay tiled roof, with plain gable to west and abutment to east, no stack visible. Single heated-room plan with cross-passage to left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 2 bays irregular fenestration. Ground floor has 16-pane sash window to centre, and the first floor two 12-pane sashes, all in plain openings; raking dormer with wide 4-light casement, with horizontal bars, crossing line of main truss. Entrance left, with 6-panel door on 4 stone steps. In west gable is a plain casement window at attic level and a 4-pane sash window to the first floor. INTERIOR: the cross-passage, in stone, has a deep double lintel to the rear wall. The ground floor has 2 deep-chamfered C16 beams with half-pyramid stops; one of these is to the left of the passage, the other centred to the main room, which has a C19 fireplace on a projecting chimney breast, probably concealing an earlier fireplace. The straight wooden stair runs across the rear wall; at first floor, on the left is a deep roof principal, with butt purlin. The gable wall includes a cupboard door on angle hinges, formerly a window or door opening, and the room to the right has a floor of early wide boards. The 2-bay roof has heavy principals to cambered collar and chamfered butt purlins; there are mortices for former wind-bracing. The building was formerly the East Wells Inn.

Listing NGR: ST5537246082