Marlborough houses [72]
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Marlborough houses [72]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 27 Nov 2020
Wye House, number 8 Barn Street, is a large 18th century house now converted into retirement apartments. Built in red brick on a stone plinth there is an ashlar Doric porch. The brick front garden walls and ashlar gate piers are included in the listing, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1365400 Marlborough is a market town on the Old Bath Road once the main road from London to Bath. The twice-weekly market is sited in High Street, one of the widest in England, lined on both sides with fine listed buildings of which the town has almost 300. There is evidence of local settlement from every period from the prehistoric to the present day. The town is home to the renowned Marlborough College. The River Kennet flows through the town.
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