Courtyard Sundials
16 The Brewery
Off Golden Hill
Wiveliscombe
Taunton
Somerset TA4 2NY
Telephone: 01984 629242 or 0797 195 4334
Email for a copy of our full colour brochure: sales@CourtyardSundials.co.uk
VISITORS AT OUR WORKSHOP ARE WELCOME
But please ring (01984 629242 or 0797 195 4334) first as we are often out making site visits or delivering sun dials.
Wiveliscombe is about 11 miles from Taunton.
If you are coming from the South (Exeter way) come off the M5 at Junction 26 (Wellington). Go in to Wellington and take the B3187 to Milverton. There join the B3227 to Wiveliscombe.
Otherwise leave the M5 at Junction 25. Go through Taunton heading to Barnstaple on the B3227.
When you enter Wiveliscombe turn right at our only set of traffic lights up High St. If you are coming from the Barnstaple direction turn left at our only set of traffic lights.
At the top of the hill after Ffyes Newsagents - on the right hand side with Webbers Estate Agents in front of you, turn right immediately . This takes you in to Sliver Street.
Go down Silver Street through a narrow section. On your left you will see Wyndham Close. Just past this close there is a concrete roadway on your right leading to the Brewery.
Go up this concrete road into the old Brewery and you will find Courtyard Sun dials on your left
The Brewery has a tall chimney which you will see if you are coming in to Wiveliscombe from Taunton. We are right under this chimney, opposite Exmoor ale.
Wiveliscombe offers a number of attractions - see www.wiveliscombe.com - including 2 Breweries, 3 pubs, The Yew Tree Antiques Centre, Carousel Pig and Courthouse Antiques & Interiors. There are 2 FREE car parks and a variety of local shops
Wiveliscombe is still home to 2 breweries - Cotleigh Brewery and Exmoor Ales. Exmoor Ales "Golden Hill Brewery" occupied a modest part of the Hancock site in 1980, where it has remained since acquiring more land and buildings as it has grown, continuing something of the history of Wiveliscombe Brew Town, along with a neighbouring local brewery, Cotleigh, situated close by on the local industrial estate.
There is an unusual red tile-hung building in the Square known as the Court House which is now the home of the Public Library, This building was constructed in 1881 and is notable for the cowed grotesque corbels and carved wooden panels depicting stylised fruit, human figures and mythical animals in the style of the Norwegian slave church carvings. Within the churchyard is a 14th century Sandstone cross.
To the east of Wiveliscombe is a small settlement called Croford. Croford House, an early nineteenth century building, was built for the owner of Slapes brick works which once stood behind it. The farm buildings nearby are made of misshaped, reject bricks from the brickworks. The good bricks were once used in most of the Victorian development in Wiveliscombe and nearby Milverton.
There is no shortage of history on the doorstep of Wiveliscombe. Famous houses abound. The closest are Gaulden Manor and Combe Sydenham, the latter being the home of one Britain's most famous seafarers - Francis Drake
