Merchant's House, Shepton Mallet

The Merchant's House at Number 8, Market Place, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England was built around 1675 and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.

[3] The Merchant's House was built by Edward Strode (c. 1629–1703),[4] a wealthy landowner, to be tenanted.

[5] (Edward was a son of Colonel William Strode, a Parliamentarian officer and Member of Parliament.)

When Strode died the house was bequeathed to his daughters with the condition that £8 per year (about £1,700 today) be used to finance a charitable donation of bread to feed the local poor.

[8] The restoration and conservation included 80 new leaded lights and 27 new metal casements.

When this fireplace — broken and covered in lime-wash — was discovered in 1995, no one had seen this style of decoration before. Consequently, the Merchant's House was regraded as a 2* from a grade 2.