Category: About Warminster: Church Street

Locally Valued Heritage Assets (LVHA) ~ Culverhouse Barn, Church Street, Warminster

From Appendix 7.8 – Warminster’s Heritage Topic Paper. Additional information to support the Warminster Neighbourhood Plan. Produced in 2024.

Locally Valued Heritage Assets (LVHA)

Map Ref. No. 11

Database Ref. LVHA23.1

Asset Name: Culverhouse Barn.

Description:
Example of the distinctive linear buildings of the town’s internationally important malting industry. Most survive only partially, but Culverhouse Barn (not a listed building) and Warminster Maltings in Pound Street (LB) survive intact. Both buildings on Conservation Area Assessment Map 2006.

How asset met Historic England critera –
Rarity (R)
Architectural or Artistic Interest (AA)
Group Value (GV)
Archaeological Interest (AI)
Historic Interest / Association (HI/A)

(R) Rare examples of maltings buildings.
(AAI) Distinctive construction with floors for drying grain.
(GV) Demonstrating the extent of the prosperous malting industry in 18th and 19th c Warminster.
(HI) History of malting, brewing and growing grains.
(SCV) A source of much of the town’s prosperity in the 18th C.

Temporary Closure Of Part Of Church Street, Warminster, For Surfacing And Works

Wednesday 30th November 2023

Urgent Closure Of Church Street (Part), Warminster

Wiltshire Council hereby give notice that on 8th December 2023, the following length of road shall be closed to all traffic in the interests of public safety to enable Wiltshire Council to carry out carriageway surfacing and associated works.

Church Street, Warminster; from property known as Number 46 Church Street and number 47 Church Street.

Alternative route: via B3414 (unaffected length), A36,B3414 (unaffected length) and vice versa.

The closure and diversion route will be clearly indicated by traffic signs. Access will be maintained for residents and businesses where possible, although delays are likely due to the nature of the works.

These works will commence on 08th December 2023 and are anticipated to be required for 1 night between the hours of 19:00 and 03:00. This Notice will have a maximum duration of 5 days.

For further information regarding these works please contact Milestone on 07714739917 on behalf of Wiltshire Council.

Temporary Closure Of Church Street, Warminster, For Openreach Work

Tuesday 24th October 2023

Urgent Closure of Church Street, C362 (Part) Warminster.

Wiltshire Council hereby give notice that on October 24th 2023, the following length of road shall be closed to all traffic in the interests of public safety to enable Openreach to carry out fibre and associated works.

Church Street, Warminster; from its junction with Ash Walk to outside property known 1b Church Street and number 47 Church Street to junction with Obelisk Terrace.

C362 (Part), Warminster; from outside property known 2 Vicarage Street to its junction with Church Street.

Alternative route: via B3414 (unaffected length), A36,B3414 (unaffected length) and vice versa.

The closure and diversion route will be clearly indicated by traffic signs. Access will be maintained for residents and businesses where possible, although delays are likely due to the nature of the works.

These works will commence on 26th October 2023 and are anticipated to be required for 3 days between the hours of 09:30 and 15:30. This Notice will have a maximum duration of 5 days.

For further information regarding these works please contact Sunbelt Rentals Ltd. 03700 500 792 on behalf of Openreach.

Historical Notes For Teddington House, 47 Church Street, Warminster

Wednesday 11th November 2020

Danny Howell writes –

Adrian Phillips, the current owner/occupier of Teddington House, 47 Church Street, Warminster, BA12 has kindly shared with me the following historical documents/references for Teddington House:

LIST OF DEEDS FOR TEDDINGTON HOUSE

Indenture 25.3.1745
Nathan Lewis of Britford, yeoman & James Hibberd of Bishopston, yeoman & Martha Smart of Bishopston, only child of Robert Smart and daughter of Mary Hibberd herself daughter of William Hibberd. Refers to a lease by Lord Weymouth to Alexander Smart in 1700.

Lease
Lord Weymouth to James Wilton
description: messuages, tenement, malthouse, garden and bankside then in the possession of John Slade, called Paine’s tenement situate at the High Cross.

Indenture 13.5.1752
William Wilton left his house to 1. His wife, 2. To brother James. 3. To brother Edward.

Lease of 31.7.1784 for 1 year
Nathaniel Webb (wool stapler of Hill Deverill) & James Wilton (the younger), wool stapler, William Wilton (deceased of Warminster), Robert Bevis to pay £200, Sarah to get the house on the death of James Wilton.
Description: includes where the former malthouse stood and now built and renovated into wool lofts and stables formerly in the possession of John Allen, then John Smart and Robert Smart.

Marriage Settlement of 31.7.1784
Between: Michael Webb of Hill Deverill now of Warminster gentleman; James Wilton (the younger) and Sarah Bevis; Edward Wilton of Warminster eldest son and heir of William Wilton; Robert Bevis father of Sarah of the city of New
Sarum; George Martin of New Sarum; William Clark Barton of Upton Skidmore gentleman.

Bond of Dower attached for the sum of £500.

Declaration of Mortgage 22.9.1815
William Stillman of Steeple Ashton, surgeon & James Wilton, wool stapler.
Refers to a mortgage of 30 August 1815 between Nathaniel Davies of Lothbury, City of London, John Davies of Chippenham, timber merchant, William Stillman, James Wilton, William ? of Edington, James Scamell of Edington for £1,500 with John Provis for £500 = £2,000

Release 24.11.1815
James Wilton & Wife, wool stapler and heir of the late James Wilton, to Nathaniel Davies, Samuel Provis, Warminster, timber merchant.
Refers to 14.5.1752, gave to his wife Mary Wilton for her life, then his brother James, then Edward Wilton. Formerly in the tenure of John Allen, then John Slade, next Robert Smart and then James Wilton, a lease of 99 years, now freehold.

Lease of 23.11.1815 for 1 year from James Wilton of Warminster, wool stapler & wife to Nathaniel Davies, of Lothbury, City of London.
Description: tenement & building, formerly a malthouse, formerly occupied by John Allen then John Slade and next Robert Smart near St Emily’s Cross.
William Wilton purchased from Lord Weymouth & left it to his brother James Wilton.

Bond 6.3.1822
James Wilton of Warminster, gentleman, Matthew Davies of Warminster, with William Scamell of Imber, & Timothy Goodman for £1,000 secured on TH.

Indenture 6.3.1822
Between the above with the addition of John Provis of Chippenham, timber merchant, William Stillman of Steeple Ashton, surgeon & brother Thomas Stillman, James Scamell: a mortgage of £2,000.

Letter 13.1.1834 more or less unreadable.

Lease 19.3.1834
Matthew Davies to Mrs Ann Provis.

Indenture 19.3.1834
Matthew Davies to Mrs Ann Provis and Timothy Goodman to Ann Provis.
Under the will of Matthew Davies, Anne Davies & Charles Davies of Southampton (Frances Vicary wife of George Vicary surgeon, Timothy Goodman executors) to Mrs Ann Provis . . . . .

Deed of gift 23.5.1843
Mrs Ann Provis to her eldest son Samuel Provis.

Conveyance 20.6.1846
From Samuel Provis, now of Salisbury to Matthew Davies & Charles Davies for £700.

Conveyance 18.2.1847
Matthew Davies to messers James Lush, seedsman and corn factor, John Scott, corn factor.
Refers to the sales by Lord Weymouth to Michael Webb in 9.12.1749 for £900

Mortgage 19.2.1847
James Lush, seedsman & corn factor, to James Lush (elder), John Lush, of Barcomb, farmer & William Parham of Sutton Veny, farmer (trustees for John Lush, late of Parsonage Farm Imber Road, now an army store) £900 on condition his mother Eleanor Lush be allowed to stay on the premises.

Conveyance 29.9.1858
James Lush, junior, James Lush, senior of Woodcock, John Lush to Mrs Eliza White, widow for £900.
Note: still an obligation to pay 8/- a year to Marquis of Bath. This was subsequently changed to a peppercorn a year and when we sent Lord Bath a box of peppercorns to last a century he queried whether they were of good quality.

Letter of 22.9.1883 about ownership of a wall.

Conveyance of 27.3.1886

Eliza White having died 3.12.1874, from William White of Charnage, near Mere, farmer to Edmund Sly for £800.
Note: first mention of the property as Teddington House “for many years occupied by Eliza White then William Day’

Conveyance 29.9.1887
Edmund Sly to John Dredge, carpenter for £1,178

Letter re 1915
Describes the honeymoon of Charles & Annie Genders at TH, then a guest house owned by Mr Dredge, Mrs Dredge and run by Miss Dredge until 1950s.

Subsequent history
House owned by Alexander & Kate Ballard as an art gallery & b&b. The studio was lived in by their friend, the artist Maxwell Armfield.

1972 – bought by Adrian & Lucinda Phillips as a book publishing house for Aris & Phillips Ltd. The property subsequently included the Ship & Punchbowl Inn when it closed (which brought the yard and garages into the property), the malthouse at 42 Church street which housed the printing and binding and the ground floor of Obelisk House as a book store. The Phillips retired in 2002, sold the other buildings and converted two wings of Teddington House into self-contained flats, retaining the main house for themselves.