Home & Garden Improvements in Trowbridge

Working in Wiltshire's county town

Trowbridge has been the county town of Wiltshire since 1889, and County Hall on Bythesea Road is the main office of Wiltshire Council, which is also the planning authority for every job in the town. The town grew on the woollen cloth trade, so the housing is a real mix: older stone buildings near the centre, streets of Victorian houses in the Newtown conservation area, and large newer estates on the edges, such as Paxcroft Mead, built in the late 1990s, and the housing that now runs on into Hilperton and Staverton.

Each of those brings different jobs. Older terraces tend to have narrow gardens, rear access through passages and boundary walls that need working around. The newer estates often have small, flat gardens with thin topsoil over builders' spoil, which is why new turf, patios and fencing in a new-build garden is such a common request.

Clay ground and the River Biss

The River Biss runs through the town and Biss Meadows, and much of its valley is clay and alluvium. Clay ground holds water through the winter, which affects lawns, patio bases and fence posts. On a Trowbridge job that means digging a proper sub-base under patios and paths, setting fence posts deep and firm, and using raised sleeper beds where borders stay wet.

What Trowbridge homes ask for most

Being based in the town, Gordon's takes on everything here from a few replacement fence panels and regular garden maintenance to decking, garden clearances, kitchens and bathrooms and full renovations. The porch floor in the gallery, levelled with fresh screed and finished in large grey porcelain tiles, was in Trowbridge. If your house is in the Newtown conservation area or is listed, check with Wiltshire Council before changing a front boundary or doing tree work. For a free quote, get in touch or call Matt.