Sherborne buildings [5]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 20 May 2023

Originally number 50 Cheap Street was a late medieval timber framed building which was extensively restored in 1965. The gable end to Cheap Street has modern windows to the ground floor. Above, jettied to the street, are two storeys with modern timber framing exposed. The front facing Abbey Road is of rubble stone. The roof is modern tile. Some early internal features remain. This building housed the NatWest Bank until its closure in 2018. Earlier, the building was the Tuck Shop used by Sherborne School and was known by the name of Noah's Ark. Current plans are to convert the building into apartments. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1110785 Sherborne is a market town in northwest Dorset, on the north bank of the River Yeo and Astride the A30 road. It is some 5 miles east of Yeovil and about 16¾ miles north of Dorchester. The town was named scir burne by the Saxons, a name meaning "clear stream", after a brook that runs through the centre of the town, and is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin has been a Saxon cathedral, a Benedictine abbey church, and, since 1539, a parish church.

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