19-21 Green Lane
Formerly a Grade II listed building.
Former listing description: C.18
altered. Two-storeys and attic,
vitreous and red brick, 1st floor
string over 1st floor windows, offset
and toothed eaves, hipped old tile
roof. A 7-bay front with the three
central bays slightly projecting with
pediment flanked by two hipped
dormers. 4-light semi-circular window
in tympanum of pediment. All windows 2-
light leaded casements. There is a
door in the Left-hand bay of the
central projection at 1st floor level.
All ground floor openings blocked
except a 6-panelled door and a 2-light
leaded casement window to the Right-
hand of the projection. Has importance
at end of street. Former Market Hall?
Prior to its redevelopment this
building and the rest of the Green
Lane site was last occupied by the
Chemical Pipe and Vessel Company. The
building was originally the Workhouse
and Gaol, built in about 1730.
Adjoining the Workhouse was the
smallpox house. The building was also
later used occupied by Downton Home
Industries and the Unionist
(Conservative) Club.
Downton Home Industries was founded by
the Countess of Radnor in 1901,
primarily to organise local lace
makers and other craft workers into a
more professional unit. It is not
known exactly when lace making started
in Downton, but it continued as
an ‘industry’ until 1966, although by
then it had moved back into the
cottages. Salisbury Museum has an
excellent display of Downton lace.
Former occupiers of site: Downton Home
Industries (1901-1920s); Downton
Unionist Club (1902-1920s); I Beer Ltd
(1934); South Wilts Bacon Curing Co
Ltd (1935-1950s); Fitch Lovell (1956);
Collins Bros (South Wilts) Ltd (Bacon
Factors) (1964-1970); CPV Ltd.
Former secretaries of the Unionist
Club: R Hickman (1935); B J Jenkins
(1953).
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