Nicholls shop - Priest Row - Wells, Somerset
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N 51° 12.532 W 002° 39.020
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A preserved sign on the side of Trewetha Cottage, #22, Priest Row, Wells, early 19th century, denoting Richard Nicholls & Sarah Nicholls place of business.
Waymark Code: WM191E9
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/07/2023
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A preserved sign on the side of #22 Priest Row, Wells, early 19th century, denoting Richard Nicholls & Sarah Nicholls place of business.
The sign reads -
Richd Nicholls Mason
Priest Row Wells ⊛
Sarah Nicholls Dealer
in Tea Coffee Tobacco
Pepper Snuff."House. Early C19 remodelling of earlier property. Rendered over rubble, clay pantiled roof between coped gables, brick chimney stack. 2-unit front range, with larger heated room to left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2 bays. Sash windows of 12 panes, with exposed sash boxes in plain openings, with a double unit to ground floor bay 2. Between bays a 4-flush-panel door with slim rectangular fanlight in segmental-arched opening, with a timber open pediment hood on console brackets. Single casement window in both north and south gables at ground level, outshot to rear. Set into north gable a small piece of white marble with a probably early C19 inscription reading "Richd Nicholls Mason/Priest Row Wells (? his mason's mark)/Sarah Nicholls Dealer/ in Tea Coffee Tobacco/Pepper Snuff"."
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Sadly not much information about the purveyors of the business, but an interesting hidden piece of history.