The Wine Vaults

This is an 1877 inn, located in Yeovil. It is constructed of colourwashed brick with Ham stone dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof, and features brick chimney stacks. The main facade, facing Union Street, has five bays. Bays three and four project and are gabled, with a simple pediment sheltering a circular stone panel. This panel sits above an angled bay window with long sash windows on the ground floor, and two semi-circular headed sashes above, set within architraves and keystones. A small entrance door is located in bay two, featuring a semi-circular fanlight within an arched surround and a shallow flat hood. Bay five has a plain sash window within an architrave on the ground floor. The first floor of bays one, two and five has segmental headed sashes with architraves and keystones. The building has plain stone quoins. A modern shop, Nelson Wingate, which occupies bays one and two and formerly a forecourt, is not of historical interest. The return side facing Wine Street has five bays, with bays four and five slightly projecting. A large three-light window is situated on the ground floor of bay one, followed by a doorway in bay two, a plain window in an architrave in bay three, an elliptical archway providing access to former stables, and doorways and windows in bays four and five. The first floor mirrors this with five segmental headed sash windows, each with an architrave and keystone. The ground floor interior is largely unaltered. The building is visually a very important corner structure.