​Bemerton HISTORY

YOUR HOUSE

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123-131 Lower Road

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Located to the left of Bemerton Club, this plot contained a meadow known as Long Close.  Thomas Scamell owned the plot at the time these properties were built.   He began life as a baker/grocer but subsequently became a master builder.  Thomas clearly did well and purchased Avon House, now a Grade II listed property at the Old Manor residential complex.  Thomas died at the age of 63 just before the Lower Road properties were built - in the event by John Hardy of Hamilton Road, Salisbury, in 1900. The houses were initially named New Terrace.  But by 1901, when all four cottages had been occupied, they were renamed Rosebery Terrace after former Prime Minister, the Earl of Rosebery.