Described by the Antiques Trade Gazette as “arguably the most exciting provincial saleroom in the country”, Woolley and Wallis has lived up to that title in recent years with a string of record-breaking sales and notable prices.
Of the nine lots to make over a million pounds at regional auction houses, Woolley and Wallis has sold six, including our top lot – a Chinese spinach-green jade water buffalo - for a hammer price of £3.4m in 2009. In 2010 the Asian Art sale became the then highest ever grossing sale for a provincial auction house, and at £7.3m the sale in question eclipsed the equivalent sales at all three of the London salerooms. The gross annual turnover for 2010 of £23.6m put them as the second highest provincial saleroom; beaten to the top spot by the freak sale of a £43m Chinese vase in Middlesex.
As one of the leading regional auctioneers, established since 1884, Woolley and Wallis holds around thirty specialist sales a year spread between nine departments headed up by leading experts in their field.
The saleroom prides itself on combining a high level of expertise and professionalism, with the friendly attitude and personal service that clients have come to expect from this long-standing family firm.
How to Find Us
Postal Address, Telephone and Fax Contacts, Directions and Map
Opening Hours:
Monday - Friday 9am - 5.30pm
Saturday 10am - 1pm
(Excluding Bank Holidays).
You can visit, write, telephone or fax us at our Head Office premises in Salisbury, England:
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury Salerooms,
51-61 Castle Street,
Salisbury,
Wiltshire,
England,
SP1 3SU.
Telephone: +44(0) 1722 424500
Fax: +44(0) 1722 424508
We are situated on the northern side of Salisbury City, in Castle Street. Coming from London, take the M3 and at junction 8 join the A303 westbound. Exit after about 17 miles onto the A343 signposted Salisbury. Follow the A343 which becomes the A30 and finally the A338 for 14 miles into Salisbury. At the first large roundabout (traffic lights) take the fourth exit (Churchill Way North A36 and The West ). After 1000 yards take the first exit on roundabout under the railway bridge and into Castle Street. We are 600 yards on the right. We have limited parking on the premises.
There are regular fast trains from London Waterloo to Salisbury. The journey takes about 90 minutes. Taxis are available from Salisbury Station and it's a five minute ride to the Salerooms.
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