Former Stable Approximately 40 Metres to South East of Rose Cottage
FORMER STABLE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ROSE COTTAGE, WOOLLEY LANE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232769
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Former Stable Approximately 40 Metres to South East of Rose Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER STABLE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ROSE COTTAGE, WOOLLEY LANE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232769
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Former Stable Approximately 40 Metres to South East of Rose Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER STABLE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ROSE COTTAGE, WOOLLEY LANE
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:
- FORMER STABLE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ROSE COTTAGE, 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:
- ST7498868787
Details
ST 76 NW
146/4/249
03-APR-90
CHARLCOMBE
WOOLLEY LANE
(West,off)
FORMER STABLE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ROSE COTTAGE
GV
II
Revision Number: 2
ST 76 NW
4/249
CHARLCOMBE
WOOLLEY LANE
(west side, off)
Former stable approx 40 metres to south-east of Rose Cottage
II
Former gunpowder works building (probably charcoal-crushing shed); then stable;
now disused. C18, probably 1st half; altered. Rubblestone, corrugated iron
roof. North-east (road side) elevation: 3 storeys, lowered to 2; 3 bays.
Quoins. On left a blocked doorway; to centre a window with doorway above in
former, quoined, window opening; to right a doorway with blocked quoined, window
opening above; ground-floor openings are later insertions, all openings have
wooden lintels. Sloping roof, partly collapsed. Left return: brieze-block
patching and later door on left. Interior: inserted partition wall and evidence
of inserted floors. Rear wall has deep, curving recess which originally
would have been the back of the wheel pit; above it is a blocked brick-arched
opening (former water-entry point). Overgrown and derelict at time of inspection
This building is believed to have been the charcoal-crushing shed to the
Woolley Gunpowder Works which operated from the 1720s to c.1803. It is the only
extant example of this type of structure associated with gunpowder manufacture.
It is listed for historical interest.
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.
Listing NGR: ST7498868787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408170
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 29-Jun-2026 at 13:14:49.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.