1, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. A C15 House/shop.
1, High Street
- WRENN ID
- quiet-slate-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1953
- Type
- House/shop
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a double-depth house, likely dating back to the 15th or early 16th century, that has undergone remodeling in the 17th and 18th centuries, with a significant facelift in the 19th century. It is now a shop with hotel accommodation above, situated on the High Street. The exterior is rendered and colourwashed, featuring a gabled clay pantiled double roof with ridges running at right angles to the road, and a brick chimney stack.
The building has three storeys and two bays. The shop front incorporates mid-19th century elements, including a five-light display window with a curved plan at the left end and doors to the right, topped by a slim fascia and deep timber cornice. A through passage is located to the left of the shop front, alongside a timber post with a worn, double wave mould and a chamfered stop at its base. Above the shop front, angled bay windows extend over both upper floors, each unit containing sash windows with 2, 4, 4, and 2 panes, and protected by hipped, slated lean-to roofs.
Inside, the ground floor has been altered in the 20th century but retains a roughly squared front bressumer and a single 17th-century chamfered transverse beam. A small section of a former jetty bracket remains at the junction with the adjacent building. On the first floor, an open lounge area connects to the rear with a stone fireplace featuring a moulded four-centred lintel. A section of wattle-and-daub walling is preserved behind glazing. One of the front rooms contains a fine 16th-century fireplace with a four-centred lintel, leaf spandrels, and a raised carved band above. The adjoining room showcases painted 17th-century panelling beneath the bay window, and an ovolo-mould beam with stops is positioned above the window. The west flank wall is largely timber-framed and partially exposed. A staircase formerly led down to ground floor level.
The staircase to the second floor is a winding staircase, rising to a central newel. The top floor includes a small stone fireplace with a four-centred head, possibly dating to the early 16th century, and two small 17th-century plank doors. The roof structure incorporates chamfered wind-braces and two purlins.
A brass plaque is set within one pilaster of the shop front, commemorating the gift of water from the Bishop's Palace wells for cleansing the town and fighting fires in 1803.
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