The Wool Hall

It was originally a residential studio set up by Tears for Fears in the 1980s and used by many artists, including The Smiths and Van Morrison.

The Wool Hall fell into disrepair[7] and was put up for sale in 2015 as a "period farmhouse incorporating residential recording studios".

[9][10][11] The historic Wool Hall studio building and annex were subsequently bought by Luke Potashnick, former guitarist of rock band Rooster.

According to Morrissey it was at the end of one of those sessions, in "a glut of meetings with accountants and lawyers at The Wool Hall Studio... [that] the Smiths breathed a last exhausted sigh and folded.

Other artists who used the studio included Annie Lennox, Ash (Free All Angels), Joni Mitchell (parts of Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm), Julia Neigel, The Pretenders (Last of the Independents), David Sylvian (Secrets of the Beehive and Rain Tree Crow), Sisters of Mercy (parts of Floodland), 808 State, Stereophonics, and Paul Weller.

The 16th-century Wool Hall in Beckington, Somerset
The Wool Hall, showing the exterior staircase leading to the plank door—one of the main features that makes the building historically notable.