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:
The 'Award' map of this date shows an outline of the building very little changed from that of today. The 1793 census of the then curate of Wells does not appear to record a building on this site.
The award map also records the owner as Edmund Holland and the Corner House as a messuage, shop and other buildings. Some of these buildings stretched along station road to the east.
