Cowbridge House

Cowbridge House, 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) southeast of Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England, was an eighteenth century house that was demolished in 2007.[1]

Cowbridge House on a 1905 postcard.

During the Second World War the EKCO company used the house as a shadow factory for the manufacture of radar equipment.[2][3] The factory continued after the war, producing radio and telecommunications equipment;[4] the company was taken over by Pye TMC and then Philips, and later became part of AT&T. The site was in use as offices until 2004 when the owners, Lucent Technologies, moved their operations to Swindon. Subsequently the site was redeveloped for housing.[5]

References
  1. Cowbridge House. Lost Heritage. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  2. Malmesbury's Secret Factory. BBC, 1 September 2004. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  3. Cowbridge House, St. Paul Malmesbury Without. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  4. Browning, B (2005). EKCO's of Cowbridge: House and War Factory. Cowbridge Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9551842-0-8.
  5. Simpson, Gordon (1 March 2007). "Historic house demolished". The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald. Retrieved 23 February 2020.


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