Remains of Blists Hill Brickworks

REMAINS OF BLISTS HILL BRICKWORKS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1054098
Date first listed:
08-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:
Remains of Blists Hill Brickworks
Statutory Address:
REMAINS OF BLISTS HILL BRICKWORKS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1054098
Date first listed:
08-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:
Remains of Blists Hill Brickworks
Statutory Address 1:
REMAINS OF BLISTS HILL BRICKWORKS

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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:
REMAINS OF BLISTS HILL BRICKWORKS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Madeley
National Grid Reference:
SJ 69532 03471

Details

BLISTS HILL Remains of Blists Hill 1. 5362 Brickworks

SJ 60 SE 33/2

II

2. Circa 1870 brickworks on site of earlier brickworks founded in 1851. Built of brick with plain tile roofs. The buildings include:- hot-floor drying sheds originally heated by coal fires and waste steam; rectangular down-draught kilns connected to a chimney by underground flues; clay preparation buildings which originally contained steam-powered clay working machinery; a canal wharf; an engineer's and carpenter's workshop and a works office. Also including the clay- mine headgear and steam winding engine shed on opposite side of the canal.

Listing NGR: SJ6953203471

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
361860
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

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