Main Building at Upper Mills
MAIN BUILDING AT UPPER MILLS, DOWNTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171914
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Main Building at Upper Mills
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN BUILDING AT UPPER MILLS, DOWNTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171914
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Main Building at Upper Mills
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN BUILDING AT UPPER MILLS, DOWNTON 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:
- MAIN BUILDING AT UPPER MILLS, DOWNTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stonehouse
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 80622 04675
Details
SO 8004 NE STONEHOUSE DOWNTON ROAD (east side)
9/168 Main building at Upper Mills
II
Former mill building, now offices. 1875 for R.S. Davies, cloth manufacturer. Red brick; stone dressings; Welsh slate roof. Three-storey with attic; 4-storey tower on west side. West front: 10-window segmental arched casement fenestration with stone sills interrupted by off-centre tower with attached 2-storey lean-to incorporated to left. Paired sashes to third floor of tower with pointed arched panel over bordered by stone moulding, moulding being taken up to become pointed hoodmould above circular window on fourth floor Sprocketed and hipped tower roof with brick eaves decoration, lucarnes and ironwork cresting. Plain stone banding to main block; sloping attic windows in mansard roof. Some C20 alterations to ground floor. Rear: 10-window fenestration as to front. Ends: coped gables; single window casement fenestration. Interior not inspected. (N.M. Herbert, 'Stonehouse' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 267-289; and J. Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, 1967)
Listing NGR: SO8062204675
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132044
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972), 267-289
Tann, J, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, (1967)
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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