58, High Street

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/128 (North side) No.58

GV II

Row house with shop. Facade dated 1885, but some earlier fragments inside. Brick and terracotta, now all colourwashed, hipped Welsh slate roof with ridge at right angles to road, brick chimney stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, single bay. Right-angle plan. Shop front probably original, but doorway relocated from right to centre, having fluted pilasters with lionhead capitals, very shallow fascia and quasi-Jacobean cornice, 3 panels of leaded lights with coloured glass over former main window and one over doorway. First and second floors have square oriel unit in a Jacobean style, in 1:3:1 lights with transom, on a moulded lower sill with 4 brackets, and with a steep-pitched gablet and a deep decorated frieze between windows matched by similar panels in main wall. Jacobean style gable decoration into which are worked initials WH and date 1885. Stack to the right. INTERIOR: shop much altered and original staircase removed, but rear gable incorporates 12-pane sash window with thick glazing bars, and front first-floor room has a C19 fireplace, but dado panelling, especially under window, appears to be C17 material reused. Plain second floor, no access to roof. A distinctive late C19 facade which, combined with the evidence for C17 fabric has significant townscape and historical value.

Listing NGR: ST5481045668