25, Sadler Street

WELLS

ST5445 SADLER STREET 662-1/7/233 (West side) 12/11/53 No.25

GV II

Row house with shop, now offices. C16 or earlier with C18 facade; roof rebuilt c1970. Rendered on timber-framing, rubble party walls and stack, concrete tiling with hip on NE corner. PLAN: double depth, with central chimney breast. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays. To ground floor a splendid shop-front of late C18, with slim reeded pilasters, double fascia and thin lead-capped cornice framing bowed 12-pane windows with very slender glazing bars and some old glass, with central C20 door. Upper floors have 12-pane sash windows with timber architraves, those to bays 2 and 3 of first floor having thick glazing bars. Access to the rear is by a through passage under the adjoining No.23 (qv); the wall to 25 includes a wide plank door to the cellar, and a second door near the rear. The rear wall is timber-framed and rendered and gabled, and remains of the original rubble stone stack can be seen in the valley between two slopes; the stack raised in late C19 brickwork. Adjacent to the through passage is a small lean-to projection with one square light, and there is a 1-bay extension with an early C18 twelve-pane sash in face box, possibly in timber-framing. Projecting sign to right hand side at first floor level. INTERIOR: partly inspected, but upper floors not accessible. Ground floor front has fine stone fireplace with stopped moulded surround to a square opening; this room also has a chamfered lateral beam. A rear winder staircase is reputed to retain some splat balusters in the upper flights, and some early framing may remain in the much restructured roof. The basement, with access by a flight of stone steps, is entered through a low pointed and chamfered stone arch to a stone flagged floor, and has an elliptical stone barrel vault with its axis parallel to the street.

Listing NGR: ST5492045863