Westbury buildings [53]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 29 Apr 2021

Number 5 Maristow Street (nearest the camera) is late 17th or early 18th century with later alterations. Built in brick with stone quoins and an old tile roof. A shop front has been inserted on the right. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1036300 Number 7 Maristow Street is later 18th century and was built as an extension to number 5. Constructed in brick under an old tile roof. The shop front is mid to late 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1036301 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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