Ilchester houses [15]

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Ilchester houses [15]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 18 May 2023

Number 21 High Street, nearer the camera, and number 22 High Street are two little-altered cottages in a terrace built in or soon after 1820. Constructed of brick under tile roofs. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1267505 (number 21) and at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1057299 (number 22). Ilchester is a village in Somerset, situated astride the River Yeo or Ivel, some 4½ miles northwest of Yeovil and about 18 miles east of Taunton. Originally an important Roman town, Lindinis, on the Fosse Way and later a market town, in the medieval period Ilchester was the county town. It declined in size and importance and the last markets were held in 1833. The name was recorded in the Domesday Book as Givelcestre, meaning "Roman fort on the River Yeo".

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