Steeple Ashton houses [44]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 14 Feb 2023

Number 54 High Street is semi-detached with number 50 Image Built in the 15th century and altered in the early 19th century. Timber framed, partly rebuilt in brick on a dressed limestone plinth under a stone slate roof. The house is set with the jettied gable end to the street and is probably the cross wing of a hall house, the hall probably was on the site of Number 50 which was rebuilt in the early 17th century. Many original internal features and fittings remain. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252687 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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