2021
ST8751 : Westbury buildings [31]
taken 3 years ago, near to Westbury, Wiltshire, England
Westbury buildings [31]
The former town hall in Market Place was built in 1815. Constructed in Bath stone ashlar with a slate roof. The ground floor is colonnaded with rusticated piers and there are two Roman Doric columns in each bay. Within the colonnade is a modern shop front, formerly three. The building has recently been home to a firm of solicitors and to a restaurant. Listed, grade II*, with details at:
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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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