Saltford House

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Saltford House is a Grade II listed building in the village of Saltford, Somerset, England. [1]

History

The house was built in 1771. [2] [3] It was probably built for his own use by the architect Thomas Bennett. [1] The three storey limestone building has a central door with ionic half columns on either side. [1] The gateways and garden walls were built at the same time as the house. [4]

Saltford House was the home of Mary and William James. He was a lieutenant-colonel of the East India Company in 1817 when they were in Cawnpore and their daughter Julia was born. She would be a Temperance campaigner in Shrewsbury. [5] In 1830 the house was nearly demolished to make way for the railway, but Major James wanted such a high price that Isambard Kingdom Brunel would create a better route that would just miss the building. [6]

In 1856 it was bought by Admiral Benedictus Marwood Kelly who died there on 26 September 1867. [7] [8] In 2016 the local member of parliament, Jacob Rees-Mogg unveiled a blue plaque at the house commemorating the time when the admiral was resident. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Saltford House and attached garden walls to north and west". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Saltford House and attached garden walls to north and west". historicengland.org.uk. Historic England. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Saltford Parish Plan" (PDF). Saltford Parish Council. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Pair of gateways and garden wall enclosing front garden of Saltford House". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Wightman [née James], Julia Bainbrigge (1817–1898), temperance activist and author". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39165 . Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  6. ↑ "Online Museum (19th Century) of past life in and around Saltford - published by SEG". www.saltfordenvironmentgroup.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  7. ↑ "Admiral Benedictus Marwood Kelly". The London Gazette. p. 6603. 29 November 1867. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  8. 1 2 "Blue plaque honours Admiral Benedictus Kelly". BBC. Retrieved 2 October 2016.

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