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Latitude: 51.0563 / 51°3'22"N
Longitude: -2.4111 / 2°24'39"W
OS Eastings: 371284
OS Northings: 128633
OS Grid: ST712286
Mapcode National: GBR MZ.FNYF
Mapcode Global: FRA 56VB.6HW
Plus Code: 9C3V3H4Q+GH
Entry Name: 10, Market Place
Listing Date: 24 March 1961
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1238740
English Heritage Legacy ID: 416355
ID on this website: 101238740
Location: Wincanton, Somerset, BA9
County: Somerset
District: South Somerset
Civil Parish: Wincanton
Built-Up Area: Wincanton
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
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ST7128 WINCANTON CP MARKET PLACE (North side)
8/181 No 10
(Formerly the Greyhound Hotel)
24.3.61
GV II
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). (Sweetman G, History of Wincanton. c1904).
Listing NGR: ST7128428633
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