bryndene
bryndene
43 - 47 (formerly 21) Princes Street
Bryndene,
Princes Street,
is a fine Grade
II town house
dating to about
1730. It is of 3
stories with 3
bays and has a
ham stone ashlar
facade under a
shallow pitched
Welsh slated
roof behind a
parapet. The
fine doorway has
stone fluted
Tuscan
pilasters,
triglyphs and
paterae
(architect-speak
for vertically
channelled
tablets of the
Doric frieze and
circular,
dish-like
ornaments) to
the entablature
and a broken
segmental
pediment. The
ground floor has
modern shop
fronts to either
side of the
entrance but the
1st floor
windows are of
12 pane sashes
set in stone
architraves,
with a band
course dividing
similar 9-paned
windows above.
The building was
the home of the
Fooks family,
glove
manufacturers of
Yeovil,
certainly
from about 1806.
The
1846 Tithe
Apportionment
noted that
Bryndene was
owned and
occupied by
Henry Marsh
Watts.
Since at least 1935 the building has been a dental surgery.
gallery
A photograph of the northern end of Princes Street dating to around 1900. Bryndene is at centre left before being converted to shops. At right, at this time the Assembly Rooms were known as the 'Palace of Varieties' as indicated by the vertical sign attached to it.
Drayton's occupied part of Bryndene before moving across the road. Photographed in 1962.
This photograph
features in my
book "Yeovil
In 50 Buildings"
Bryndene, Princes Street - now, sadly, with an appallingly unsympathetic ground floor elevation. Photographed in 2017.
This photograph
features in my
book "Yeovil
In 50 Buildings"
Bryndene's fine Doric-style entrance. Photographed in 2017.
This photograph
features in my
book "Yeovil
In 50 Buildings"
The side elevation of Bryndene features 'blind' windows. These are more likely to be an architectural feature to visually break up a large expanse of bare wall rather than being a product of the Window Tax which had been introduced some forty years before Bryndene was built. Photographed in 2017.