Rose Mills (Original Building Only)
ROSE MILLS (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY), STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057085
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Mills (Original Building Only)
- Statutory Address:
- ROSE MILLS (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY), STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057085
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Mills (Original Building Only)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROSE MILLS (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY), STATION 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:
- ROSE MILLS (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY), STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Somerset
- District:
- South Somerset (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 34422 15024
Details
ILMINSTER CP STATION ROAD (South side, off) ST31NW 1/144 Rose Mills (original building only) -
- II
Industrial building. Earlier C19. Ham stone rubble, ashlar quoins; double Roman clay tiled roof with bargeboarded gables; brick chimney stack, Three storeys; earliest portion 6 bays. Metal windows in segmental arched openings having stone voussoirs with keystones; doors to lower bay 3, upper bays 4 and 5 and top bays 2 and 4, north-east elevation; doors all part glazed, in segmental arched openings, with cast-iron approach stairs: the openings to all lower bays and first floor bay 6 blocked on this side. Extension south-east slightly lower, 2 storeys, 9 bays, of later C19 brick lined openings, casement windows, brick porch to bay 7; doorway to upper bay 3 with external iron staircase, South-west elevation similar, but in part masked by later buildings not of special interest, Interiors not accessible. Premises formerly occupied by the Chard Lace Company; mill pond now filled in. (Buchanan C A and R A, Batsford Guide to Industrial Archaeology of Central and Southern England, 1980).
Listing NGR: ST3442215024
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263959
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Buchanan, , Buchanan, , Batsford Guide to Industrial Archaeology Central Southern England, (1980)
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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