WALSALL CONDUITS SITE

WALSALL CONDUITS SITE, NARROW LEWINS MEAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187263
Date first listed:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: WALSALL CONDUITS SITE
Statutory Address:: WALSALL CONDUITS SITE, NARROW LEWINS MEAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187263
Date first listed:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: WALSALL CONDUITS SITE
Statutory Address 1:: WALSALL CONDUITS SITE, NARROW LEWINS MEAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WALSALL CONDUITS SITE, NARROW LEWINS MEAD

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

District:: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 58652 73251

Details

BRISTOL

ST5873SE NARROW LEWINS MEAD 901-1/11/145 (North West side) 08/02/88 Walsall Conduits Site

II

Also known as: The Sugar House LEWINS MEAD. Sugar refinery and warehouse, now office and warehouse. C18, C19 and early C20, including right-hand facade of 1922. Brick with Portland dressings to the right section, rendered rubble to the left, with pantile hipped roofs. Complex of buildings with right-hand double-depth plan office, left-hand warehouse, trapezoidal courtyard to rear with engine house and stack. Edwardian Baroque style office facade. 3 storeys; 5-window range office, 4-window range warehouse. The office has a symmetrical front with the middle 3 windows and roof set forward, plinth, quoins, plat band and second-floor sill band, and moulded timber eaves cornice. The doorway has a large shell hood on acanthus brackets to a boarded overlight and double 6-panel doors. Flanking windows have quoins, upper ones with keyed architraves and ashlar aprons, cut on the second floor by the tall key beneath, with 8/8-pane sashes, and 6/6-pane sashes to plain outer windows. The right return has a 2-window range, with a gabled rear block. The steep roof has a flat, leaded top. The parapeted warehouse has blocked ground-floor windows, a right-hand carriage arch with 11 stepped voussoirs, cambered heads to the windows above, flat to those to the left, to 2-light casements with glazing bars. Roof in 3 hipped sections. Former engine house has a square brick chimney. INTERIOR not inspected; office section reported as having a ground-floor left-hand room with complete C18 fielded panelling, including eared fire surround; structure variously timber or steel-framed. The central section of this block appears to be the earlier part, late C18-early C19. Details of the warehouse include a mixture of rubble and brick walling with a single cast-iron column, one timber and one brick post carrying a long flitch beam; first floor has 6 chamfered wood posts with pillows to a longitudinal beam, second floor similar carrying slight C19 king post trusses; concrete ground floor, wide plank first and second floors. A C20 three-storey flat-roofed concrete and steel block returns to back of the courtyard. HISTORICAL NOTE: Bristol was an important centre for sugar refining and several firms latterly operated in the Lewins Mead area; this complex appears to be one of those and, though altered, is of interest as an exceptionally complete and historically important testament to this industry. (Buchanon and Cossons: Industrial Archaeology of the Bristol Region: Bristol: 1969-).

Listing NGR: ST5865273251

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Legacy System number:: 380013
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Buchanan, Angus, Cossons, Neil, The Industrial Archaeology of the Bristol Region, (1968)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.