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Springfield House Gates
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A detail of Springfield House Gates in Hilperton Road, Trowbridge.
Springfield House was demolished in 1958 to make way for housing development. Only the gate piers at the town end of Springfield Park survive. They are grade II listed lest anybody gets an idea to do away with them too.
Springfield House was built around 1840 in the Italianate style favoured by wealthy early Victorians. It was the home of William Stancomb, a prominent clothier, who was part of the flourishing Trowbridge wool business. In 1862 Stancomb also built the Market Hall, where the buses now stop in Trowbridge centre. Only the facade of that building remains as the entrance to the Wetherspoons pub named Sir Isaac Pitman in honour of the Trowbridgian inventor of Pitman shorthand. Stancomb’s name lives on in Stancomb Avenue, a nearby residential street.
Photographed with a Nikon D90 and Sigma 15-30mm EX IF lens.
Springfield House was demolished in 1958 to make way for housing development. Only the gate piers at the town end of Springfield Park survive. They are grade II listed lest anybody gets an idea to do away with them too.
Springfield House was built around 1840 in the Italianate style favoured by wealthy early Victorians. It was the home of William Stancomb, a prominent clothier, who was part of the flourishing Trowbridge wool business. In 1862 Stancomb also built the Market Hall, where the buses now stop in Trowbridge centre. Only the facade of that building remains as the entrance to the Wetherspoons pub named Sir Isaac Pitman in honour of the Trowbridgian inventor of Pitman shorthand. Stancomb’s name lives on in Stancomb Avenue, a nearby residential street.
Photographed with a Nikon D90 and Sigma 15-30mm EX IF lens.
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