Last week, I took myself off for an early morning bus ride, and the first stop was in Shipston-on-Stour. Strolling around the town centre, I spotted this fine building in a side street.
According to Jess, The Cotswold blogger:
Sheldon's Wine Cellar in Shipston on Stour has operated as a wine merchant since 1842. Edward Sheldon's supplied fine wines to universities, religious orders and officers' mess rooms across the Empire. They have ledgers going back 100 years and it would seem that back in the day, the vicar of Halford order 6 gallons of gin every 6 weeks! Shipston has a phenomenally high water table and in 2007, Sheldon's ancient wine cellar flooded to waist height. They lost some 14,000 bottles.
OK, I can't see this being of immediate use to most modellers, but it's a nice looking building, and would sit nicely in a model town. The gateway could certainly be copied for your own model.
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