OUTBUILDING AND STORE ATTACHED TO THE DECOY

OUTBUILDING AND STORE ATTACHED TO THE DECOY, WOOLLEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232768
Date first listed:: 03-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:: OUTBUILDING AND STORE ATTACHED TO THE DECOY
Statutory Address:: OUTBUILDING AND STORE ATTACHED TO THE DECOY, WOOLLEY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232768
Date first listed:: 03-Apr-1990
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Dec-2001
List Entry Name:: OUTBUILDING AND STORE ATTACHED TO THE DECOY
Statutory Address 1:: OUTBUILDING AND STORE ATTACHED TO THE DECOY, WOOLLEY LANE

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.

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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:: OUTBUILDING AND STORE ATTACHED TO THE DECOY, WOOLLEY LANE

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Charlcombe
National Grid Reference:: ST 74943 68791

Details

ST 76 NW 146/4/248 03-APR-90

CHARLCOMBE WOOLLEY LANE (West,off) OUTBUILDING AND STORE ATTACHED TO THE DECOY (Formerly listed as: WOOLLEY LANE OUTBUILDING AND STORE ATTACHED TO ROSE COTTAGE) II

Former gunpowder works building and store (probably refining house and saltpetre store), now outbuilding. Mid C18; altered C19 and C20. Rubble-stone with stone dressings, outbuilding with pantile roof, store largely underground with red brick vault. Outbuilding one storey, 5 bays, with store at left end, projecting forward. Quoined doorway at left end with a window on its left; similar wider doorway with chamfered, round-cornered, lintel and board door at right end with inserted small-pane window on its right; between these 2 original doorways a former long, 6-light window with stone surround and flat-faced mullions, the lights now blocked and at right end a large doorway inserted. Store, projecting at left end, has quoined doorway with chamfered lintel in re-entrant angle. Rear: outbuilding has top of a quoined doorway on right and traces of other original openings; various inserted openings.

Interior: outbuilding has large-scantling cross-beams; principal rafter roof trusses, square-sectioned diagonally-set ridge-piece, through purlins, old rafters. Store has barrel vault, quoined at entrance. These buildings served the Woolley Gunpowder Works which operated from the 1720s to c.1803.

HISTORY: Gunpowder was manufactured on this site from the 1720s until c1803, after which it reverted to agricultural use. It was the first of three in Somerset which were started to supply local mining interests and also foreign markets through the port of Bristol, and all of which closed by the mid-C19. These sites, of which Littleton is the best preserved, provide evidence of the dispersion of gunpowder making away from the South East during the C18.

B J Buchanan and M T Tucker, "The Manufacture of Gunpowder: a study of the documentary and physical evidence relating to the Woolley Powder Works near Bath", Industrial Archaeology Review, V, 3, Autumn 1981, pp 185-202; Brenda Buchanan, "The Technology of Gunpowder Making in the Eighteenth Century: Evidence from the Bristol Region", Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol. 67 (1995-6).

Listing NGR: ST7494368791

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Legacy System number:: 408169
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Buchanan, B, 'Transactions of the Newcomen Society' in The Technology of Gunpowder Making in the Eighteenth Century: Evidence from the Bristol Region, , Vol. 67, (1995-6)
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), 185-202

Legal

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