Power Loom Shed at Stanley Mills to North West of Main Building

POWER LOOM SHED AT STANLEY MILLS TO NORTH WEST OF MAIN BUILDING

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1090761
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1976
List Entry Name:
Power Loom Shed at Stanley Mills to North West of Main Building
Statutory Address:
POWER LOOM SHED AT STANLEY MILLS TO NORTH WEST OF MAIN BUILDING

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1090761
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1976
List Entry Name:
Power Loom Shed at Stanley Mills to North West of Main Building
Statutory Address 1:
POWER LOOM SHED AT STANLEY MILLS TO NORTH WEST OF MAIN BUILDING

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
POWER LOOM SHED AT STANLEY MILLS TO NORTH WEST OF MAIN BUILDING

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:
King's Stanley
National Grid Reference:
SO 81153 04273

Details

SO 8104 KING'S STANLEY RYEFORD

10/24 Power loom shed at Stanley Mills to north west of main building 24.11.76

GV II

Former power loom shed. 1854, for S.S. Marling. Ashlar limestone piers, brick infill. Flat roof not visible for inspection. South part in coursed rubble with blue brick arches. Four-storey, adjoining west end of main building (q.v.). Side: 10 bays divided by stone piers. Windows of weaver's type (tall vertical panes), square-headed to top and bottom floors, segmental-arched to middle 2 floors. Three-window fenestraton to east side of stone-built range with blue brick segmental-arched heads and small-paned casements. Main part stands on bridge of 4 keyed stone arches spanning River Frome. North end formerly with parapet gable, dismantled in C20 alteration to flat roof. Interior not inspected. Built to provide accommodation for first power weaving looms at mill. (Illustrated in K.G. Ponting, The Woollen Industry of South West England, 1971; and J. Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills 1967)

Listing NGR: SO8115304273

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
131898
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Tann, J, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, (1967)
Ponting, K G, The Woollen Industry of South West England, (1971)

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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