Number 6 And Associated Boundary Walling

WELLS

ST5445 CATHEDRAL GREEN 662-1/7/29 (North side) 12/11/53 No.6 and associated boundary walling

GV II

House. Medieval origins, remodelled c1800 in Picturesque Gothic style. Local stone rubble, ashlar dressings, clay pantiled roof between coped gables, brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5 bays. Battlemented parapet to main block. Bay 1 has a hexagonal plan projection with cornice moulding and possibly earlier battlemented parapet, with two single-light 3-pane windows, similar projection without windows between bays 4 and 5. Bays 2, 4 and 5 have composite east windows of 4+12+4 panes, with the tops of the middle unit radially glazed, the lintels over having false keystones. Bay 3 has a projecting stone porch in a Gothic style, with 4-centred moulded arch, pierced spandrels and crenellated parapet. To first floor are a 2-light casement to left of bay 2, and to right of bay 2 and to bays 4 and 5 are plain stone 3-light mullioned windows in slight recesses with square labels all with wood casements having three panes; pointed relieving arch to right of lower bay 2. Triple gable west elevation to Saddler Street, with late C19 windows in segmental-arched recesses, with central glazed door in deep recess. C20 extension to the rear northwards (Kendrick Court). INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: extending from the north-west corner of the house is a length of rubble walling about 4m high, with battlemented top, (probably of C19 date), for about 17m length, a similar wall extends southwards from the south-west corner of the house along Sadler Street for about 22m, curving round to meet part of Brown's Gate (qv) where it becomes lower with a flat coping, blocked arched doorway at south end of high section: return along Cathedral Green about 2.5m high, with square ashlar gate piers in centre, having a wrought-iron overthrow for a former lamp, the whole length of the wall being an important element of the street scene in both Saddler Street and Cathedral Green.

Listing NGR: ST5494245894