Stour Vale Mills (Woodward Grosvenor and Company Ltd) : Front Range

Stour Vale Mills (Woodward Grosvenor and Company Ltd) : Front Range, Green Street, Kidderminster

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244819
Date first listed:: 02-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: Stour Vale Mills (Woodward Grosvenor and Company Ltd) : Front Range
Statutory Address:: Stour Vale Mills (Woodward Grosvenor and Company Ltd) : Front Range, Green Street, Kidderminster

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244819
Date first listed:: 02-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: Stour Vale Mills (Woodward Grosvenor and Company Ltd) : Front Range
Statutory Address 1:: Stour Vale Mills (Woodward Grosvenor and Company Ltd) : Front Range, Green Street, Kidderminster

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:: Stour Vale Mills (Woodward Grosvenor and Company Ltd) : Front Range, Green Street, Kidderminster

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wyre Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Kidderminster
National Grid Reference:: SO8338276328

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GREEN STREET Stour Vale Mills (Woodward Grosvenor and Company Ltd) : Front Range

II Carpet factory. 1856, extended later C19; by J G Bland for the Stour Vale Mill Company. Red brick with yellow/white Stourbridge brick dressings. Welsh slate and corrugated sheet clad roofs with pedimental gable ends.

PLAN: long range containing offices and warehousing. Adjoining at the rear (south-east), and not included, the weaving sheds.

EXTERIOR: two storeys. North west front elevation 9:3:9 bays with two and seven-bay extensions on the left (north-east) end. Centre three bays breaks forward with pediment. Rusticated white brick quoins, bond and entablature, the centre three bay's with rustication around ground floor windows and with keyed oculus in pediment. Round-headed windows with hoodmoulds and multipane cast-iron frames (first floor altered), centre with keystones, the ground floor centre originally a doorway. Right-hand (north-east) designed in similar style.

INTERIOR: altered by conversion to C20 office accommodation.

NOTE: built by the Stour Vale Mills Company in 1856 as a venture to enable Kidderrninster carpet manufacturers to rent space and power for powerloom weaving without having to obtain new premises and looms. The weaving sheds behind were divided into nine separate compartments and there were separate entrances at the front. Many of the large carpet makers such as James Morton and Sons and William Green began here before building factories of their own.

SOURCE: A D Goff, The Development of the Carpet Works of Kidderminster 1735-1939; dissertation, University of Birmingham (Ironbridge Institute).

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Goff, A D, The Development of the Carpet Works of Kidderminster 1735-1939

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