Mountroy And Attached Forecourt Railings

Mountroy is a house dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, also known as The Judge's Lodgings. It is built on a rubble base with rendered walls, featuring a false ashlar lining, stone dressings, and a Welsh slate double Mansard roof behind Dutch curve coped gables. The building has ashlar chimney stacks.

The house is two storeys with attics, originally five bays wide, with flanking two- and three-bay extensions. Architectural details include a plinth, rusticated quoins, a cornice, and a plain parapet. It has plain sash windows set in plain architraves. A 20th-century door is located in the centre bay within a plain architrave, with an “anse-de-panier” stone hood supported by brackets above it. Four flat-roofed dormers with 9-pane sash windows are set behind the parapet. The left-hand extension lacks a cornice and parapet but has coped gables to a double roof. The right-hand extension features a cornice, parapet, and a hipped roof at a right angle to the main roof. The ground floor of the right-hand extension has a central composite window of three plain sashes, with the central sash being wider. The interior of the property was not inspected.

The front of the building features a basement area with five steps leading up to a bridge providing access to the front door, flanked by early 19th-century railings. The property is located at the northern limit of medieval development in Wells.