1922
Advertisement:
Hendrey, The Photographer,
38 High Street, Warminster.
For high-class photographs, latest styles.
Wedding groups and all outdoor work by appointment.
Postcards from 6/6 per dozen.
Amateurs’ requirements. Dark room.
Films and Plates developed.
Patronised by the late King Edward VII.
5 Medals awarded.
1922
Advertisement:
H.G. Simmonds
(late E.B. Jones),
Family Draper, Tailor & Outfitter.
Every requisite for family mourning.
Large and well-assorted stocks of
millinery, blouses, coats, costumes and underwear
in the newest styles, at lowest prices for each.
Household drapery of all kinds.
Agent for Pullar’s Perth Dye Works.
Tailoring and Outfitting Department.
Suits to measure or ready to wear, in reliable cloths.
A perfect fit guaranteed.
Shirts, hats, ties, hosiery, sports coats, flannel trousers.
Reliable raincoats & macintoshes in various makes.
Our Wylye raincoats enjoy an increasing popularity.
11 & 12 High Street, Warminster.
Melrose, 5 High Street, Warminster, was included among the properties sold by the Longleat Estate in September 1919 (about 100 houses, cottages, shops, pubs, farms and smallholdings – described at the time as the largest property sale ever held in Warminster).
The sale catalogue described it as follows:
“Lot 32. Melrose, or 5 High Street. A commodious dwelling-house on the main street, now used as a Boarding House. Brick and stone built, with cement front and tiled roof, containing on ground floor, Sitting Room, 17ft. 6in. x 16ft. 4in.; Dining Room, 15ft. 6in. x 15ft. 3in.; small Sitting Room, bath (h. and c.), large kitchen and scullery, and a large room, 17ft. x 15ft. On first floor are 10 Bedrooms and w.c., and there are 3 attics.
At the back is a courtyard with big range of Outbuildings, including Garage or Coach-house. There is a Summer House, a small Lawn, and a large Kitchen Garden at the rear, whilst at the side is a roadway to yard and garden.
Now let to Mr. W.J. Lapham on a quarterly tenancy at £60 per annum. Land Tax, 15s. 11d.”
The sale of the properties was spread over two days, Friday 5th September and Saturday 6th September 1919, at the Town Hall, Warminster. The auctioneer was David Waddington of Messrs. D. and D.H. Waddington, and Messrs. Ponting & Marshall were the solicitors for the vendor, the Marquess of Bath, K.G.
Melrose was put up for auction on the first day of the sale. It was purchased for £800 by Mr. Cornelius.
From The Wiltshire Times, Saturday 20th August 1910:
Warminster. Proposal to erect an Obelisk.
A meeting of subscribers to the John Hall Memorial Fund was held at the Town Hall on Friday, with 16 persons present. There was discussion on the form to be taken by a proposed memorial to Mr. Hall, who was a strong advocate of Free Trade principles. One suggestion was a portrait to hang in the Town Hall, the other, favoured by his family, was an obelisk outside Mr. Hall’s house at the top of High Street Hill . . . . It was agreed that Mr. Strong be asked to prepare a design for an obelisk, and the U.D.C. be asked for permission to erect it.
Thursday 30th May 1907
To let, The Organ Inn, High Street, Warminster.
Apply Bartlett & Co., Warminster.
Electoral Roll : The list of Ownership Voters, Parliamentary Voters and Parochial Electors, for Warminster (Parliamentary) Polling District (Bb), Parish of Warminster, Wiltshire, 1894 – 1895, includes:
No. 183
Name of each voter at full length: Stephen Sidney White.
Place of Abode: 354 Kennington Road, London.
Nature of Qualification: Freehold house.
Description of Qualifying Property: Ship tavern, High Street, Warminster.
Occupation Voters (other than Lodgers)
Division One –
at High Street, Warminster, 1894-1895
(Persons entitled to vote as Parliamentary Voters,
County Electors and Parochial Electors)
Name of Voter:Â Henry House.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 2 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â John Giles Day.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 3 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â Robert Lewis Willcox.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 5 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â William Churchill.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 9 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â William Oborne.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 11 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â Evan Baxter Jones.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 12 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â Timothy Furlonger.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: Organ Inn.
Name of Voter:Â Herbert Sweetland.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 15 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â Henry Steadman.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 16 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â Benjamin Trollope.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 17 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â James N. Greenland.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 18 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â John Lewis Foreman.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 26 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â Samuel Webb.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 27 and 28 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â Albert Elloway.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 29 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â George Hitchings.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: Ship Inn.
Name of Voter:Â Sidney Prince.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Shop.
Description of Qualifying Property: 35 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â Frederick Futcher.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 36 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â Sidney L. Corden.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 37 High Street.
Name of Voter:Â Edwin Young.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 38 High Street.
The Devizes & Wiltshire Gazette, of Thursday 15th October 1835, included the following advertisement:
Most eligible Freehold Property. In the centre of the town of Warminster, Wilts.
For sale by auction, by Mr. Strode, at the Bath Arms Inn [Warminster], on Wednesday the 4th day of November, 1835, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, subject to such conditions as will be then and there produced,
– All that, Extensive and Valuable Estate, late in the occupation of John Tivitoe Thring, a Bankrupt: comprising a substantial and newly-erected family Residence, fitted up in a style of elegance and provided with every convenience which can render a Dwelling comfortable. The Entrance is from the High-street, and although the House is situate in the centre of the town, it possesses all the advantages of the country as to privacy and scenery, the principal rooms opening on a Lawn and Pleasure-grounds of considerable extent, bounded and interspersed with thriving Plantations and the choicest Evergreens and ornamental trees, and commanding a view of the most distant country. Adjoining the Lawn are Hot and Green Houses of recent erection, fitted up on the most approved principles, with stables and Coach houses newly built in the best possible style, with Dwelling for a groom.
In short, the Estate, comprising upwards of 5 acres with a ring fence, contains every needful building and embellishment which good taste could devise or the most liberal hand execute. The House is adapted for a man of fortune, and is also well calculated for a professional gentleman. A large part of the Premises, including the Hot and Green Houses, might easily be let off, without interfering with the House, to a nurseryman or florist.
For further particulars, apply (if by letter post paid) to Mr. Goodman, Warminster, Solicitor to the Assignees; to Mr. Boor, Warminster; or to Mr. Cooper, Salisbury, Solicitor to the Mortgagees; and for viewing, to the Auctioneer, Post Office, Warminster.
High Street [Warminster] is so named, on the 6th Plan (map) which accompanies the 1783 Enclosure Award For Warminster And Corsley.
The Chantry, 34 High Street, Warminster, BA12 9AF, was built circa 1750 – 1760 and is probably the work of a Longleat Estate surveyor or architect.
