Main Block of Abbey Mills
MAIN BLOCK OF ABBEY MILLS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200197
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Main Block of Abbey Mills
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN BLOCK OF ABBEY MILLS, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200197
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Main Block of Abbey Mills
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN BLOCK OF ABBEY MILLS, CHURCH 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:
- MAIN BLOCK OF ABBEY MILLS, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradford-on-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 82501 60939
Details
1. CHURCH STREET 5411 (South Side)
Main block of Abbey Mills, (Formerly listed as India Rubber Mills) ST 8260 2/12 18.4.52.
II* GV
2. The main block of this factory, roughly square in plan, is an imposing structure. 1875 by Richard Gane. Ashlar, hipped slate roofs, 5 storeys. The principal elevation is 8-windowed, each window having a pointed segmental head, glazing bars and swivel-hung transom light. The windows are contained within shallow vertical recesses, carried upwards through all floors and terminating in lancet-arched heads. Above is a continuous corbel table supporting a moulded cornice and plain parapet with moulded coping. There is a brick-built polygonal smoke stack on a square ashlar base.
All the listed buildings in Church Street the Chantry Little Chantry, Barton Orchard and the Catholic Church of St Thomas More, Market Street form a group with No 7 and Nos 9 to 19 Barton Orchard, Nos 5 and 6 and 27 to 31 (consec) and wall Newtown.
Listing NGR: ST8253260958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 312516
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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