Corner House, Shop, Front Garden Area Railings And Pump At Rear

Corner House is a house with shop premises, dating from around the 17th century, with significant alterations in the early and mid-19th century. It is located in Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset.

The building is constructed of coursed stone rubble with a rendered rear elevation, and the first floor of the right side is red brick in a Flemish bond, with fragments of timber framing visible. The roof is steeply pitched slate with gabled ends and a hipped corner. Short red brick shafts are visible at the rear gable and corner.

The building has a roughly L-shaped plan, and represents a remodelling of an earlier house, with remnants of this earlier structure surviving in the right-hand half and extending into a rear right-hand wing. It is currently divided into two tenements. The ground floor of the left section is a shop with a kitchen and lavatory to the rear, which extends into the ground floor accommodation of the adjacent property, The Cressy. The right-hand portion features a shop, a kitchen with a loft above in the rear wing, and a cross-passage leading to an outbuilding with a loft and a cartway.

The symmetrical two-window front features 2-light casement windows on the first floor with glazing bars. The ground floor has two canted bay shop windows under a slated pentice roof extending over a panelled central door. The right-hand shop window retains its original 19th-century glazing bars, while the left-hand bay has a more recent plastic replacement. The right-hand side elevation has a red brick first floor wall, two 19th-century 3-light casements, a plank door to the right, and a central 19th-century studded plank door. Rendered fragments of timber framing are positioned above the door. An outbuilding to the right has a cart entrance with plank doors. The rear elevation has 2- and 3-light casements with horizontal glazing bars.

A lead pump dated 1860, with the initials GMD in a wooden housing and a stone trough, is located at the rear. The front garden is enclosed by 19th-century wrought iron railings with arrowhead shafts, set on a dressed stone plinth with a curved corner and small stone gate piers with ogee caps, along with a similar wrought-iron gate with a curved brace.

The interior contains simple 19th-century joinery and some light ceiling beams. The roof structure has been mostly replaced, except for remains of a truss in the gable end of the rear wing. This truss features a tie beam, collar and principal truncated just above the collar, with some studs remaining.