Ivy Place, Salisbury

Image: © Brian Robert Marshall Taken: 30 Apr 2010

Taken on my cellphone camera while wandering about waiting for an onward journey to commence. Ivy Place is to be found on the western side of Castle Street. I found a reference to Ivy Place on the Wiltshire Council website an extract from which reads as follows: "Increasing economic and population pressures enforced the intensive use of the areas behind the street frontages. There would either be a gap in the building line or an archway, opening out into a courtyard a bit like that in a coaching inn such as the Red Lion in Milford Street (National Grid SU 1457 2994). We still have some of these courtyards in Salisbury: two are: Ivy Place, entered through an archway on the west side of Castle Street (National Grid SU 1436 3027), and Finch’s Court, entered through a gap in the building line on the south side of Winchester Street between Brown Street and Pennyfarthing Street (National Grid SU 1467 3004). These days they are rather chic terraces of cottages, but a century ago, they could be pretty grim. The Lovibond Collection (housed in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum) has a picture of Fulford Place, off Castle Street, in the 1920s, showing a terrace of three run-down timber-framed cottages facing onto a shabby yard with bits of junk lying around." http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getfaq.php?id=440

Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0