Sherborne houses [2]

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Sherborne houses [2]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 20 May 2023

Middle House, Castleton Road, was built in the 17th century. Constructed of coursed, squared rubble stone with ashlar dressings under a roof partly of stone slate and partly of tile. The doorway has a pediment supported on brackets. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1324340 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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