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North Street, WINCANTON, BA9 9AU

The school was eventually founded in 1838, and carried on for several years before the restructuring of education in the late 1800s. It is nowadays closed, haveing been subsequently used for storage and other menial purposes. It did have an additional role though, when The Lodge of Science (a freemason group) used it for meetings from 1869.

The Bear Inn is the white building on the right. Here the one way system starts.

Grade II listed. Listing number 1238740. Inn, now antique shop. C18. By Nathaniel Ireson. Local stone rubble rendered and colourwashed with printed ashlar dressings; plain clay tile roof behind parapet; brick chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Plinth, rusticated quoins, cornice, parapet; 12-pane sash windows, all but those to ground floor renewed, in architraved surrounds with triple keystones; late C20 shopfront in character bays 4 and 5; and to bay 3 a carriage archway through to yard, a triple keystoned flat arch flanked by fluted Doric pilasters carrying plain entablature with metopes at ends only; over this a shallow oriel window of three 12-pane sashes with lead flat roof over, having Royal Crest in centre under-cill panel commemorating a one-night stay by Queen Victoria when a child; elaborate wrot iron bracket for hanging sign over; parapet has smaller quoins and pitched centre section featuring an oval plaque with greyhound, flanked by pilasters; to crown of centre panel and to ends of parapet are pineapple vase finials. In the carriageway through are two 6-panel doors with architraves to left, and farther back two single-storey bay windows on right. First mention in parish records 1743; advertised in 1760 as 'new built'. The Greyhound may represent the arms of the Churchey family of The Dogs, Tout Hill (qv).

In a town centre where many buildings and premises are vacant and in need of some care this bright building opposite the town hall stands out.

The Greyhound Hotel was a coaching inn - perhaps the most important in Wincanton - and its arched entrance leads to what used to be the stables.

Grade II listed. Listing number 1238739. Pair shops with houses over. Probably C18. Ashlar facade, rubble to sides; plain clay tile roof with simple gables; ashlar chimney stacks with moulded caps. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Plinth, rusticated quoins, eaves cornice; two later C20 shopfronts to ground floor; first floor has pairs 12-pane sash windows with architraved surrounds, plain mullions and keystones to outer bays, with a matching Venetian window to bay 2; above are 9-pane sash windows in architraves, doubled in the outer bays. The return to North Street (East side) of mixed character, with plain gable end, then an extension with random windows of C18 and C19. Interior not seen. Facade in the style of Nathaniel lreson. Good condition suggests an early C20 restoration.

Viewed from the north-east.

This can be found on the wall of Wincanton Town Hall. For more detail see : http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm48210

Wincanton High Street.