Door Furniture & Brickwork

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Few of the details that go to make up a building are as independent of the structure beneath as the various attachments that get fastened to doors.
It is very hard to establish whether a piece of door furniture dates from the time the building was constructed, and in most cases it is probably safer to assume that it does not.
Door knockers and the other useful items that go with them tell us a lot about the personal decorative tastes of owners, and not much about styles of architecture.

The two windows show the two traditional Salisbury bricks, with the red one the commonest, produced most notably at Whaddon, on the edge of Alderbury.
The other type, Fisherton Greys, were made in Salisbury, in the Devizes Road area where there was a seam of clay.
They were however more short-lived, in production from the mid 18th to the late 19th century.
The New Street and Wyndham Road examples show the decorative use of different colour bricks, while in Catherine Street the bricks are being used for panel filling, rather than load-bearing walling.
The use in Tollgate Road of flint mosaic as a decorative addition to brickwork is remarkable, and quite possibly a unique instance of the technique.