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