Clock Tower Approximately 300 Metres North West of Powdermill Cottage
CLOCK TOWER APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES NORTH WEST OF POWDERMILL COTTAGE, LITTLETON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129216
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower Approximately 300 Metres North West of Powdermill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK TOWER APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES NORTH WEST OF POWDERMILL COTTAGE, LITTLETON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129216
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Dec-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower Approximately 300 Metres North West of Powdermill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOCK TOWER APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES NORTH WEST OF POWDERMILL COTTAGE, LITTLETON LANE
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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.
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:
- CLOCK TOWER APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES NORTH WEST OF POWDERMILL COTTAGE, LITTLETON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 55026 64371
Details
ST 56 SE WINFORD LITTLETON LANE
SP/796 Clock Tower at Powdermill Cottage
II
Clock tower, formerly part of mill premises. Probably late C18 or Early C19. Small squared and coursed limestone to thin, slab-like ashlar quoins, roof destroyed. A tower about 2.5m square and 5m high, now incomplete, and the original height not known. To the north, or river front is a square doorway with ashlar jabms and stone lintel; above this an oculus in brick, filled with brick but containing a central ashlar block with opening for a shaft or clock drive. To the left an opening for a small window, but without lintol and with damaged masonry over; at the back a further doorway, with ashlar jambs and remains at responds of a brick cambered arch. The interior of the walling has remains of plastering, and is built in rubble; there are two remnants of bonding timbers or plates which may have carried joists or small beams over the door openings. Although now ruinous and in a not very stable state, this is an important remnant from the large powder mill complex formerly on the site from about 1650 to 1820's. It is thought that the tower was attached either to a small chapel, or to site offices, but it now stands isolated. It has considerable historic interest for the site (Avon County SMR entry 2190 for more complete information on the complex).
Listing NGR: ST5508064304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33990
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crocker, G, The Gunpowder Mills Gazetteer, (1988)
Avon County Sites and Monuments Record in No 2190, ()
Buchanan, B J, Tucker, M T, Industrial Archaeology Review in The Manufacture of Gunpowder: A Study of the Documentary and Physical Evidence Relating to the Woolley Powder Works near Bath, Vol. 3, (1981)
Buchanan, B, Transactions of the Newcomen Society in The Technology of Gunpowder Making in the Eighteenth Century: Evidence from the Bristol Region, (1995-6)
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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