Lamb Building (Building 70), Kingston Mills

Lamb Building (Building 70), Kingston Mills, Silver Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1036136
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: Lamb Building (Building 70), Kingston Mills
Statutory Address:: Lamb Building (Building 70), Kingston Mills, Silver Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1036136
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Jun-2005
List Entry Name:: Lamb Building (Building 70), Kingston Mills
Statutory Address 1:: Lamb Building (Building 70), Kingston Mills, Silver Street

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Lamb Building (Building 70), Kingston Mills, Silver Street

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District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bradford-on-Avon
National Grid Reference:: ST 82647 60925

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SILVER STREET (South side) Lamb building (building 70), Kingston Mills (Formerly listed as: SILVER STREET, LAMB FACTORY BUILDING AT KINGSTON MILLS)

23-AUG-74

II Part of a former rubber manufacturing factory, formerly for manufacture of rubber flooring and hose pipes. Built c.1916 and designed in part by architect E.J.C Manico.

Two storeys, reinforced concrete frame with brick panels to north and east, Bath stone facades to principal elevations (west and south) and flat-roofed. Trapezoidal in plan.

Front elevation (west), onto Silver Street, has four bays with paired windows in each; all have segmental heads, projecting sills and keystones. Metal glazing bars divide each window into 16 panes.

Riverside elevation (south) is divided vertically into five bays by plain, shallow pilasters. Each bay has a single segmental headed metal window. String courses, one dividing the storeys and another above the first floor, are present plus a shallow parapet and a large chamfered plinth at roof level.

North elevation has brick panels separated by pilasters. It is also of five bays, four with rectangular metal windows and loading bays to left end. The lower right hand window openings are blocked.

East elevation of four bays. Two external concrete frame staircases in north and south bays provide access into building and connect to roof level. First floor window openings are blocked, except southern bay which has flat-headed metal window. Ground floor is connected to the west end of a former tyre casting workshop, c.1911 in date, which is not considered of special interest.

The internal space is similar at ground and first floor: large areas with no internal divisions and the square chamfered columns of the concrete frame evenly spaced throughout.

HISTORY: In the mid C19 Stephen Moulton, an associate of the American Charles Goodyear established a rubber manufacturing factory on part of the vacant Kingston Mill complex, a former cloth manufacturing site. In 1891 the company went into partnership with a London rubber manufacturing firm and became known as Spencer, Moulton and Co and began to expand. The company was bought by the Avon Rubber Company in 1956 who continued to manufacture rubber at Kingston Mills until its closure in 1992. It is likely that the constraints of siting the building on made-up ground alongside the river determined the type of materials used; a concrete frame construction provided an ideal solution in such conditions. The Lamb building employs the Kahn system of construction in which the longitudinal bars in the concrete are connected to wings or branches which rise to an angle of 45 degrees. The concrete frame was manufactured by the Trussed Concrete Steel Company Ltd in London, who directed its assembly on site. The advantage of a building with a concrete frame construction is that it is cheap and quick to construct as well as being fire resistant, durable and able to withstand vibration. Despite such advantages reinforced concrete construction spread slowly in Britain; partly due to the rigidity of local authority building regulations. However, following the establishment of the Concrete Institute in 1908, the method was more frequently adopted. However, whole concrete frame buildings which survive from before the inter-war period are relatively rare, particularly examples of individual systems such as Kahn's.

ASSESSMENT OF IMPORTANCE: the special interest of the Lamb building resides in its use of a reinforced concrete frame, demonstrating early C20 advances in civil engineering. The Lamb building is also significant for its historical association with rubber production at Bradford-on-Avon and the contribution it makes to the townscape.

SOURCE: `Kingston Mills, Bradford-on-Avon' (1999) George & Toni Demidowicz.

Listing NGR: ST8264760930

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Demidowicz, G T, Kingston Mills, Bradford-on-Avon, (1999)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.