The eastern side of Vicar's Close - numbers 1 to 13.
Vicar's Close is a double row of houses enclosing a street of about 140 metres. There were originally 44 houses, now 27, with some units combined into a single dwelling. Built circa 1360 for the Vicars Choral there have been various rear extensions in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries with refenestration in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The properties were extensively restored between 1976 and 1983.
Numbers 1 to 13 are listed, grade I, with details at:
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The boundary walls to these houses are listed, grade I, with details at:
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A Roman settlement around three wells that became much more important when the Anglo-Saxon King Ine of Wessex founded a minster church in 704, Wells is the second smallest city in England.