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High Street, MARLBOROUGH, SN8 1LU

The years 1677 and 1929 are on the building above LLOYDS BANK - perhaps the year when the building was erected and the year in which Lloyds took over the building.

Bank branch at 125 High Street, Marlborough. The years 1677 and 1929 are on the building above LLOYDS BANK - possibly the year the building was erected and the year in which Lloyds took over the building.

This house was rebuilt following the Great Fire of Marlborough in 1653, and was owned by silk merchant Thomas Bayly. It is now owned by the Merchant’s House Trust, and is open to the public.

Lloyds Bank, 125 High Street, is an early 20th century building incorporating fragments of an earlier structure. Built in brick with mock timber framing and ashlar on the ground storey. Marlborough is a market town on the Old Bath Road once the main road from London to Bath. The twice-weekly market is sited in High Street, one of the widest in England, lined on both sides with fine listed buildings of which the town has almost 300. There is evidence of local settlement from every period from the prehistoric to the present day. The town is home to the renowned Marlborough College. The River Kennet flows through the town.

Fashion clothes and accessories shop for women and men.

Number 121 High Street is an 18th century building in brick with one tile hung gable end to the street. The shop front is modern. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1258174 Numbers 122 to 124 High Street are accommodated in a late 17th or early 18th century tile hung building in brick. The shop fronts are 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1034227

The street is lined on both sides with shops of a kind to indicate the high level of local prosperity. In the words of Marlborough Jewellers https://www.davidchristopher.co.uk/stores/marlborough-jewellers/ : 'The High Street is said to be the widest in the UK and filled with chocolate box buildings hosting a wide variety of shops for the discerning customer.' The jewellers can be seen here tucked between Waitrose https://www.waitrose.com/bf_home/bf/164.html and Hamptons estate agents https://www.hamptons.co.uk/branch/estate-agents/marlborough/ .

The Stagecoach double-decker on bus route 80 from Swindon bus station to Ludgershall is at the High Street Marlborough bus stop outside Lloyds Bank. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5798433