The Square and Salisbury Street, Mere
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The Square and Salisbury Street, Mere
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 29 Jun 2018
Many of the buildings on the left are listed: on the left, beside The Bower House, is Cross House, with a "prominent C19 hipped slate dormer with glazed cheeks ... The whole appears to have been some form of workship {sic} or commercial activity attached to the house front" https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1130729 . Next is the rendered Crossways https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1300855 , followed by Blue Rider https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1130730 with a "steep, long roof slope" and, behind the lamppost and belisha beacon, Georgian House https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1200260 . Salisbury Street is the B3095, formerly the A303 when the main road came through the town centre.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.090424
Longitude
-2.267958