The Goldcroft Glove Company Works and Entrance Gates
THE GOLDCROFT GLOVE COMPANY WORKS AND ENTRANCE GATES, EASTLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055720
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Goldcroft Glove Company Works and Entrance Gates
- Statutory Address:
- THE GOLDCROFT GLOVE COMPANY WORKS AND ENTRANCE GATES, EASTLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055720
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Goldcroft Glove Company Works and Entrance Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GOLDCROFT GLOVE COMPANY WORKS AND ENTRANCE GATES, EASTLAND ROAD
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE GOLDCROFT GLOVE COMPANY WORKS AND ENTRANCE GATES, EASTLAND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yeovil
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5612416203
Details
ST51SW
6/21
YEOVIL CP
EASTLAND ROAD (West side)
The Goldcroft Glove Company Works and entrance gates
12.10.73
- II
Works - leather/gloves. Dated 1855 (date plaque on wall of original main block).
Local stone random coursed, with some brick piers with timber infill at high
level; slated roofs. The original and main block (along Eastland Road) of
4-storeys with double pitch gable end valley roof, has 6-arched windows (now all
blocked) at the lowest level, with 2-windows with semi-circular arched heads at
first and second floor levels as well as central doors to both levels, with a
hoist and roller tackle projecting bar. Matching return elevations. Internally
brick piers run up through the full height of the building. The floors are
level, with broad elm boards except at attic level, where small boards alternate
with spaces between joists: this wooden upper storey was used for drying the
wool from the skins, and these gaps, coupled with louvres in the timber infill
of the outer walls, assisted the process. The machinery, originally
steam-powered, now driven by electricity and is of early C20, and includes
combing tanks and dressing drums. A second later building runs parallel to this
main block at the rear of the site, and is joined to it by a C20 single storey
link block constructed of concrete blocks with corrugated asbestos sheet roof.
At the main entrance off Eastland Road a pair of slid cast iron gate piers and
open ironwork gates. This gloveworks is one of the few survivors of what was
Yeovil's principal industry, and probably the best and most complete
illustration of the process: hence its inclusion.
Listing NGR: ST5612416203
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261357
- 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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