The CornerHouse building has been used for many purposes throughout the years:
Please select a year using the list below to gain an outline of the history of the Corner House as it is now known, or to give it its probable earliest name The Tewksbury Stores:
Possibly the earliest evidence of the building as such; on this prominent site some structure may have pre-dated ours, but this is the likely date of documents found on our recent restoration concealed behind the deep Georgian skirting of room 2. One document, a leather bound book called The Novelist 11 appears to be a Protestant tome, frowned upon at the time; and the other, two pages of a periodical paper advertising new books which refers to both ‘A new history of England up to the year 1795’ and ‘Millar’s new and universal system of geography; being a complete modem history and description of the world…. particularly the modern discoveries made by the late Captain Cook, and those who succeeded him after his unfortunate death by the savages of “Owyhee”.
