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Almshouse Lane, YEOVIL, BA22 8NJ

The pharmacy is situated in an old terraced house in the High Street.

Looking south from the hostelry, along the main street in Ilchester

Number 27 High Street and the shop adjoining were both built in the 19th century with a later shopfront. Constructed of lias stone, now rendered. The house has a clay pantile roof, the shop has a tile roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1222830 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".

Looking across Church Street towards Limington Road

Number 1 Manor House, West Street, is part of a large corner house, built in the 17th century, much altered and greatly restored in the late 20th century. Constructed of rendered stone with Ham and artificial stone dressings under a concrete tile roof. Inside, the northwest corner room on the ground floor has Jacobean oak panelling with Corinthian pilasters. Other ground floor rooms are panelled. The house was never an actual manor house, has endured drastic external restoration and has been subdivided. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1223506 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".

Looking north-north-east towards the Market Square. This was originally the Roman Fosse Way. With the village - or is it town - pharmacy on the right and the Dolphin inn beyond

At the corner of West Street and Almshouse Lane. Dating from the mid seventeenth century it was considerably altered in the eighteenth. This was at one time the home of the Tory, Sir William Manners, Lord Huntingtowers, who bought the manor of Ilchester from the town corporation in 1808, for political gain. It ishard to appreciate now, but until 1846 Ilchester was the county town of Somerset and returned two MPs to parliament. It remained one of the 'rotten boroughs' along with Old Sarum, Calne and others until the Reform Act of 1832. By the road that was originally the Roman Fosse Way

This chapel situated in Church Street was built in 1850 and enlarged in 1861. It now houses an antiques shop.