Westbury houses [76]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 29 Apr 2021

Ivy House number 15 Church Street and number 15A Church Street were originally one 17th century house, refronted in the 18th century. Built in brick on a stone plinth with a treble Roman pantile roof to number 15 and a mansard roof in old tile to number 15A. Number 15a has a second door to a through passage. There is a large extension to the rear. The roof timbers of both the houses and the extension are massive with large jointed-cruck type trusses. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1285459 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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