46, High Street

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/118 (North side) 13/09/72 No.46

GV II

House over shop, now cafe. c1910. Faience tiled, double Roman clay tile roof, brick chimney stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics in twin gables, 2 bays. Shop front mostly original, set under very wide elliptical arch, with full-width fanlight having leaded rectangular panes, with some bullion glass, in bronzed frames, central oak glazed door; to the right a part glazed door to the upper floors. To first floor a pair of curved 4-light-with-transom leaded oriel windows each on a single scroll bracket, with cornices under flat roofs, small leaded single-light windows to gables, ornamental gutter boxes and downpipes to either side. Wrought iron bracket and hanging sign between oriel windows. The gables with faience copings to moulded edge. INTERIOR: ground floor consistent with early C20 date, first floor and attics not inspected. Listed as good and relatively unaltered example in genre, sympathetic to and continuing the historic interest of the street. Included as a fine example of an early C20 commercial property with Art Nouveau influences.

Listing NGR: ST5484445674