Victor Strode Manley, in Volume 10 of his Regional Survey of the Warminster District, compiled in the 1920s and 1930s, includes the following:
45 East Street, Warminster has the reputation of being haunted as stated by several persons.
In May 1931 I was given two incidents by Mrs. – who used to live in the terrace adjoining the house. It was about eleven o’clock one night when she was going home, and near the house she could see a woman with long sleeves. The stranger gave her a poke in the back and was asked if there was not room for both on the pavement. The stranger crossed the road and then rose from the ground and passed out of sight.
Her father was going to work very early one morning and is positive he saw a spectral figure come from the house, cross the road, and disappear up the lane by the posts.
George Strode Manley informs me he remembers a Mr. Petherbridge living there. He was engaged in making ploughs.
No explanation has been offered.