Westbury buildings [17]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 29 Apr 2021

This late 18th century house with later additions and alterations is now the Chalford House Hotel and was formerly the Cedars Country Club. Built of red brick with stone quoins and cills under a slate roof with a stone Doric porch. The extension to the left is early 20th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1036316 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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