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 first deeds we hold for the Corner House are from this date and refer to the sale of the property by Margaret Holland and Charles Holland to William Plowman, plumber and glazier of Wells, the amount paid was £500. At the time it was a chemist shop with William Read Pridgeon tenant, a 'chymist and druggist' as recorded in Pigot's trade directory of 1822 and again in 1830, but no mention in 1836 either of him or a chemist in Staithe Street.
This deed refers to the Corner House as messuage or tenement with the shop now used as a chemist, stables, garden and premises. Also included in this was an adjoining coopers shop.
1860 printer, bookseller, stationer, bookbinder, newsagent, agent for the sale of pianofortes, stamp distributor, agent for general fire and life office.
All under the direction of one Henry Frier, and all at once; his having probably followed Pridgeon the chemist as tenant.
