10 Flingers Lane And Associated Outbuildings

House and former detached coach house, now altered to garages. The main house dates from the late 17th or early 18th century, with extensions added in the later 18th century and refurbishment in the second half of the 19th century.

The house is built of limestone rubble with a mostly plain clay tile roof, though stone slates cover the lower parts of the roof at the west end. There is a substantial central brick stack and a further brick stack to the half-hipped east gable end, with additional end stacks serving the 18th-century additions. The windows are mostly two-light timber casements of various dates, predominantly 19th and 20th century, with some having concrete lintels.

The building is L-shaped in plan, of two storeys with attics. The main range comprises three bays with gabled additions at the west end, each of two bays and probably dating from the 18th century. A single-storey outshut at the north-west end appears on the 1888 Ordnance Survey map but was partly rebuilt and extended in the second half of the 20th century. The former coach house has a rectangular plan.

The south-facing principal elevation features a small projecting porch with a casement window to the western half and a second entrance door with a similar window to the right. The first floor has two larger windows set under the eaves. The addition to the left of the main range also has a ground-floor doorway and window with two windows at first-floor level. The rear north elevation has two windows serving the ground and first floors, a re-sited two-light mullioned window with ovolo moulding lighting one stairway, and a small fixed light above serving the attic stairs.

On the ground floor of the main range, principal rooms flank the large central stack. The left-hand room retains a chamfered spine beam with run-out stops. Rooms to the rear are narrow, with one retaining a 19th-century fireplace. Two staircases are located in this section, the earlier lit by the mullioned window. The first floor retains some 19th and early 20th-century fireplaces, and several rooms have wide elm floorboards. The doors are mostly 19th-century panelled doors, though some have pegged door cases dating from the late 17th or 18th century. Stairs lead to attic rooms. The roof structure is partly exposed, consisting of principal trusses with two rows of purlins, though some rafters have been replaced. The western addition, accessed from the earlier part by a short flight of steps, is principally 19th-century in character, but its roof of tie-beam trusses with two rows of trenched purlins is consistent with an 18th-century date.

The former coach house forms the north side of a rear courtyard. It is also built of limestone rubble with a pitched plain tile roof, though the west gable has been partly rebuilt in brick. The main elevation has two sets of double doors and a single doorway to the far right, with a taking-in door set high in the east gable wall. The interior is divided into three bays, with one partition wall being a 20th-century addition, and a loft above. A further outbuilding predates 1888, and a late 19th-century privy stands to the south-east. The rubble stone boundary wall survives intermittently to its full height, though rebuilt in places.

Wincanton's principal medieval and post-medieval industry was cloth production. Its position on major routeways also supported income from coaching traffic, with many coaching inns established in the 18th and early 19th centuries. 10 Flingers Lane lies to the north of the High Street and appears on the 1840 tithe map. On stylistic and structural grounds, it dates from the late 17th or early 18th century and was extended westwards by the addition of two parallel gabled wings of slightly different dates in the later 18th century. The original part was also altered at about this time by extending the building to the rear. A second stair was inserted between the ground and first floors in the west half, probably in the second half of the 19th century. The building is understood to have been in multiple occupancy at this period, as evidenced by the additional staircase in the western addition. It was recorded as three tenements in 1944 but is now a single dwelling.