Wookey Hole Paper Mill
WOOKEY HOLE PAPER MILL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058601
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wookey Hole Paper Mill
- Statutory Address:
- WOOKEY HOLE PAPER MILL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058601
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wookey Hole Paper Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOKEY HOLE PAPER MILL, HIGH STREET
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:
- WOOKEY HOLE PAPER MILL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Cuthbert Out
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 53183 47774
Details
ST54NW ST CUTHBERT OUT CP HIGH STREET (East side) WOOKEY HOLE
10/109 Wookey Hole Paper Mill
GV II
Paper mill, now used for exhibition purposes and part a factory with offices. Circa 1860, for W S Hodgkinson, later alterations. Coursed and squared rubble, freestone dressings, dressed alternating quoins, slate roofs, coped verges and copings at roof divisions, large gabled oblong roof ventilators with slate roofs, brick stack. Road frontage of 3 storeys, 18 bays on first floor, predominantly 20-pane metal casements in freestone surrounds with cambered heads and emphasised keys, some windows with louvred shutters; 3 stone mullioned and transomed windows to left of ground floor. Shallow gabled wing to left, segmental arch door opening on first floor, paired doors, reached by later steel gallery with plain railings. Between wing and rain portion a segmental headed throughway. Extensive attached ranges to rear in conforming style, one with gabled ashlar bellcote with windvane, (Atthill R, Old Mendip, 1964).
Listing NGR: ST5318347774
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268123
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Athill, R, Old Mendip, (1964)
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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