Bowden's Old Lace Factory
BOWDEN'S OLD LACE FACTORY, BODEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197427
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Bowden's Old Lace Factory
- Statutory Address:
- BOWDEN'S OLD LACE FACTORY, BODEN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197427
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Bowden's Old Lace Factory
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOWDEN'S OLD LACE FACTORY, BODEN STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- BOWDEN'S OLD LACE FACTORY, MILL 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:
- BOWDEN'S OLD LACE FACTORY, BODEN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- BOWDEN'S OLD LACE FACTORY, MILL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chard Town
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3239008451
Details
CHARD
ST3308 BODEN STREET
756-1/4/6 (East side)
24/03/50 Bowden's Old Lace Factory
GV II
Lace factory, now works. c1825. Flemish bond brick on
limestone rubble plinth. 3 storeys, 14-window range to front,
3-window range to left return and 4 windows to right return;
circular tie-plates between each window on each floor to front
and back. Projecting loading bay to right in style of archway
(qv) of 1901; stone coping to front gable end over canted bay
with hipped stone roof. High door above plinth and entrance to
right return, all with heavily rusticated quoins and
dressings.
INTERIOR: divided into small commercial lots, but mostly
cast-iron piers to vaulted brick ceilings. The lace or plain
net trade became established after 1820 by manufacturers who
fled from the Luddite resistance they had faced in the
Midlands.
(Aston: Historic Towns in Somerset: 1977-; Buchanan CA:
Industrial Archaeology of Central Southern England: 1980-:
P.123).
Listing NGR: ST3239008451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374033
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Buchanan, , Buchanan, , Batsford Guide to Industrial Archaeology Central Southern England, (1980), 123
Aston, M, Leech, R, Historic Towns in Somerset, (1977)
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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