71, High Street

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/134 (South side) 13/09/72 No.71

GV II

House, with offices under. Late C18, modified. Brick, rendered and colourwashed. Clay pantiled Mansard roof between coped gables, brick chimney stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 4 bays. Late C19 shop front across ground floor, having thin deep glazing bars, 3-light display windows with rounded top corners flanking a central part-glazed door. The deep fascia has a reeded cornice; the shop-front returns in one similar bay to the left, in Queen Street. First floor has plain sashes in reveals, on deep stone sills, and with decorative scrolled balcony fronts. Bold moulded stone coping to parapet returned to mansard end, with large stack. Flat roofed dormer windows to bay 2 and 4. Return along Queen Street has painted ashlar gable with matching sash window at first floor level. INTERIOR: not inspected. These premises now integral with No.2 Queen Street (qv).

Listing NGR: ST5475245620