Description

ST7128
8/146

WINCANTON CP
HIGH STREET (North side)
No 51 (Uncle Tom's Cabin Public House)

24.3.61

GV II

Inn, formerly house. At least C18. Local stone rubble, colourwashed on South elevation; thatched roof, half hipped on East side; brick chimney stack. 'L' plan. 2 storeys, 2-bay front. Above are early pattern 3-light wood framed windows with leaded panes; below a 9-pane sash window to bay 1, under timber lintol, then a C20 boarded door in plain opening; to bay 2 an early C19 composite opening of two 9-pane casements, a stable-type door, and a 2-light small pane casement, much distorted, under continuous hood - possibly representing an earlier shop. On East return to Flingers Lane are two later sash windows with door between them, to ground foor; above three 3-light early leaded casements, one now blocked.
Interior only partly seen; chamfered main crossbeam, no stops; small winding stair (enclosed) in North West corner; bar fittings and layout could be of 1861, when this first became an Inn; bench seats around walls. (Sweetman, G. History of Wincanton, c1904).

Listing NGR: ST7152128701

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26563823

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