Steeple Ashton houses [43]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 14 Feb 2023

Number 50 High Street is semi-detached with number 54 Image Built in the early 17th century and rebuilt in the early 19th century. Timber framed with brick nogging, refronted in dressed limestone, under a Welsh slate roof, rendered stacks. Many early internal features and fittings remain. The house was used as the Long estate office until the mid 20th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252686 The village of Steeple Ashton is a former market town, having been granted a weekly market in 1266. It lies some 3¼ miles east of Trowbridge and some 7 miles southwest of Devizes. The town became wealthy from its cloth industry, but there was a great fire in the early 16th century, and when it came to rebuilding the industry moved to the nearby town of Trowbridge, where the River Biss provided power for fulling mills. The first part of the village name comes from the former church spire, which collapsed in 1670.

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