Sherston & the Southwolds

HERSTON’S main wide street gives every appearance of having been built that way for market days. Indeed, back in medieval times, the settlement had borough status and was a market centre.

- with Nigel Vile

All around was wealth and prosperity from the wool trade, with the River Avon and its various tributaries providing a source of waterpower to power the local mills. The High Street is lined by rather handsome properties, with Pevsner detailing the architectural detail of no fewer than half a dozen of these fine buildings. Of number 6, for example, he noted ‘early 18th-century, of three bays, with a weeny pediment and a doorway with a shell-hood on corbels!