The Georgian House

The Georgian House is a late 18th-century house located on Cathedral Green in Wells. It is constructed from Doulting stone ashlar and features a Welsh slate Mansard roof with coped gables and stone end chimney stacks. The house has a symmetrical plan with a central wide hall leading to a rear transverse staircase.

The exterior consists of two storeys with attics and five bays. It has a plinth, a moulded cornice, and a plain parapet. The twelve-pane sash windows are set in plain openings with quintuple-keystoned heads. The central bay features a projecting stone porch supported by corner fluted Doric columns on plinths, complete with a full entablature and pediment. This porch frames a pair of three-panel doors, with the inner doors being margin-glazed and topped by a decorative semicircular cast-iron fanlight. At the rear, there is a large arched staircase sash window with Y-bars.

Inside, the entrance porch has a floor made from a single large slab of lias stone. The entrance hall and return corridor also feature lias slab flooring, and there is a wide elliptical arch with broad fluted responds leading to the transverse staircase. This staircase has very slender turned-on-square balusters, a scrolled string, and a mahogany wreathed and swept handrail. The large room to the left has a fluted cornice and a wide blind recess with an elliptical head at the rear wall, along with a 19th-century white marble fireplace flanked by arched recesses. The room to the right also features a white marble fireplace surround from the 19th century.

On the first floor, there is a plain elliptical arch from the staircase, although it has been filled with later doors. The top flight of the stairs has been modified but retains matching details. A first-floor room on the right includes an Art Deco fireplace surround. Most doors throughout the house are six-panel, fielded, and set in wide moulded architraves, with the front windows featuring original shutters.