Category: About Warminster: Cotton House Gardens

Friday 15th February 2013

The back of some of the houses at the
southern end of Cotton House Gardens
at Fairfield Road, Warminster,
as seen from Buttons Yard.

Photograph taken by Danny Howell
on Friday 15th February 2013.

June 1992

Cotton House Gardens, the residential development adjacent Fairfield Road, Warminster, was completed during June 1992.

Friday 13th March 1992

West Wiltshire District Council Housing Committee Chairman Mr Terry Chivers, with trowel in hand, laid the last tile on a council-backed housing scheme at Fairfield Road, Warminster. 

Mr Chivers was accompanied by, left to right: Housing Development Officer Mr Paul Moore; Shaftesbury Housing Association’s Mr Gordon Aylott and Mr John Shone; and District Council Housing Director Mr Jim Iles. 

They climbed up on to the roof for the ‘topping out’ ceremony at Cotton House Gardens.

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A Warminster development to provide accommodation for single people should be completed by the summer.

Mr Terry Chivers, Chairman of West Wiltshire District Council Housing Committee, ‘topped out’ the 20 one-bedroom flats at a ceremony last week.

The flats at Fairfield Road, Warminster, are being built at a cost of £500,000, on a former council depot site. 

They will be known as Cotton House Gardens; a name suggested by the Warminster historian Danny Howell.

Tenants nominated by the council will move into the flats which are being developed by the Shaftesbury Housing Association.

The council earmarked the land to provide homes for single people and offered it to the Shaftesbury Housing Association in October 1990.

Contractors Alexander Pearce & Son, from Salisbury, began work last October and should be finished in June 1992.

Architects were the Relph Ross Shelbourn Partnership of Salisbury.