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Behind Berry, SOMERTON, TA11 7PD

At the entrance to Somerton Cemetery, on Behind Berry.

Large house with wonky windows House Grade 2 listed and description that says "Formerly detached. Apparently 1770. Local stone cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings; double Roman clay tile roof behind parapet between coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 7 bays. Sash windows of 12 panes in architraved surrounds, that to centre upper bay having segmental arched head; continuous label over ground floor windows and central open stone portico, which has Doric columns on short plinths carrying moulded flat stone hood; simple lead rainwater downpipes and stackheads to each side, and simple moulding to plain parapet. Said to have been built in 1770, but could well be a re-modelling of an earlier building.

Former drinking fountain with lamp post on Broad Street, manufactured by Coalbrookdale for King Edward VII's coronation in 1902. The horse troughs are now planted out. Grade II listed by Historic England: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=262949&mode=adv

Somerton was once the capital of Somerset many centuries ago. It was also noted for its large cattle market.

Somerton has two almshouses bestowed on it. In the seventeenth century Sir Edward Hext had built eight homes for poor men. Later came Mrs Sophie Scott Gould of North Curry, a widow who worked as a housekeeper in a large house locally. It appears that she was in receipt of a large financial sum, which she used to found these almshouses for women only (in contrast to Hext). Opened in 1866, and restored in 1981; Grade II listed.

An open and airy gate to the cemetery in Behind Berry. The cemetery is a nineteenth century institution that lost a small corner of the grounds when the G.W.R. line was cut through in the early 1900s.

This trough and fountain was refurbished for the millennium.