When the turnpike road was diverted at the west end of the High Street in 1828, a rank of cottages known as Eleanor Place was built on the steep ground (formerly an orchard) just below the road, roughly on the site of the present Eleanor Cottages. Attached to the back of these, at the higher level facing onto the road, was a another building described as a ‘hothouse’ belonging to Charles Wilkins. Below the cottages, at the end of their gardens, was a pathway which led in one direction down to the bottom of Connection Road (described below) and the factory area of the Lower Mill, and in the other, up into Twerton Wood. When the railway was built in 1840, the hothouse was replaced by a Jacobean-style house known as Eleanor Cottage, and the lower pathway was realigned alongside the viaduct. The long flight of steps leading down to the road still exists (although now walled up), but the route in the opposite direction, which connected with Wood House and Twerton Wood, was closed off in the early 20th century. All these buildings were destroyed by a wartime bomb. Although a modern house was built on the site of Eleanor Cottage in the mid 1950s, this was later demolished, together with the ruins of the lower rank, for the building of the present row of houses in the 1990s.