Westbury houses [28]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 29 Apr 2021

Numbers 98 and 100 Leigh Road occupy an 'L' plan building built in the early 19th century. Constructed of brick with a pantiled roof. A 17th or early 18th century mullion and transom cross window has been inserted into the left return of number 98. Number 100 is a rear extension. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1036297 Westbury is a former market town in the far west of Wiltshire under the north western edge of Salisbury Plain, 4 miles south of Trowbridge and 4 miles north of Warminster. Westbury was a centre of the cloth industry from the later 15th century until the 19th century. Malting was another important industry. There are now a number of large industrial and trading estates around the town with many residents working there. The town is an important junction point on the railway network with the Reading to Taunton line intersecting the line from Bristol to Southampton.

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