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Cheap Street, SHERBORNE, DT9 3AZ

Grade II* Listed Boarding House for Sherborne School with a date in the spandrels of 1649 but it was probably built late in the 16th century; it was formerly possible to see on the façade 157. . . the fourth figure being illegible. On the site of monastery farm buildings the school first made use of Abbeylands for boarders in 1872. In the early part of the 19th century the house was in the occupation of John Melliar, an old boy of the school and in 1817 a Governor. Later it passed to the Cutlers and from them was first rented as a boarding house. A similar Francis Frith photograph of 1900 https://www.francisfrith.com/sherborne/sherborne-abbeylands-cheap-street-1900_46085 shows different fenestration on the ground floor with what could be a shop front with doorway. Some part of the premises had at one time been occupied by a firm known as the "Sherborne Coal, Timber, Corn and Cake Co." The shop front had gone in a postcard from the first quarter of the 20th century. The school raised funds by the sale of land endowment from Edward VI to secure its houses and in 1919 purchased Abbeylands from John Cutler grandson of Rev John Cutler headmaster 1790 to 1823 by a roundabout legal process involving the then current headmaster Nowell Smith. It is possibly as a result of this that the ground floor frontage was refurbished.

One of two K6 phone boxes flanking the frontage of Image, this one is the more southerly, in a shady spot adjacent to the delivery office entrance next to the post office itself. See Image for the other box.

The bench mark is to be found on the south east face of the building. For a wider view Image and for further information on the cut mark http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35917

The postbox outside Image has been painted gold in honour of local man Peter Wilson, who won one of Britain's first gold medals at the London 2012 Olympics. All Olympic and Paralympic gold medallists had a local postbox painted gold to mark the feat.

Looking across the frontage of the main post office in Cheap Street. The Image now has a plaque explaining that it was painted gold in honour of Peter Wilson, the Sherborne man who won Britain's first gold medal at the London 2012 Olympics.

Imposing building on Cheap Street which takes its name from the Old English "chepyn" for marketplace. Note the gold postbox for London 2012 gold medalist (shotgun) Peter Wilson. www.sherbornedorset.co.uk

Grade II Listed mid 19th century house. 'Camelot' owned by Mr J Guppy was built about 1840 and purchased by the post office in mid to late 1927. Archibald Bulloch was employed to design the conversion to a post office that was subsequently opened on 8th December 1929. The Grade II Listed K6 telephone kiosk was installed at the same time. At the end the yard was to be an engineering-room, and garage to accommodate six cars but the Post Office had only four vans at the time.

One of a handful of late medieval buildings on Cheap Street https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101304886-36-and-38-cheap-street-sherborne#.Wqgx6-fLisw

The postbox, which has one slot for franked and one for stamped mail, stands outside Image and follows a curious trend for boxes outside main offices to be numbered 2000, while the other boxes in the neighbourhood tend to be numbered haphazardly but consecutively upwards from 1. It is emptied finally at 6pm on weekdays - unsurprisingly, the latest weekday collection time in town - and at 12:30pm on Saturdays. An old postbox, incorporated into the fabric of the building, is concealed behind it.

The town still has a fully functioning Post Office.