23, Sadler Street

WELLS

ST5445 SADLER STREET 662-1/7/232 (West side) 13/09/72 No.23

GV II

Row house, with shop. C16, C18 front, modified C19. Timber-framing, rendered and colourwashed, rubble, double gabled roof with ridge at right angles to street covered with clay triple roll tiles. PLAN: a double-depth plan, but the ground floor opened to a continuous space; to the right is a through-passage, with 3 heavy rough-chamfered beams bearing on the wall of No.25 (qv). EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays. Later C20 shop front across ground floor, with 3-light display window and deep recess to right, with doors to shop and ginnel to rear. Upper floors have 12-pane sash windows with timber architraves, wrought-iron brackets for hanging baskets at each end, first-floor sill level. INTERIOR: not inspected. With No.25 adjoining, and probably of the same date, as No.25 (qv). This an early property in which the original fabric has been concealed by refashioning the frontage.

Listing NGR: ST5492145856