Coate's Brush Factory
COATE'S BRUSH FACTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248487
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Coate's Brush Factory
- Statutory Address:
- COATE'S BRUSH FACTORY
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- Date:
- 1999-10-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/00035/32
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248487
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Coate's Brush Factory
- Statutory Address 1:
- COATE'S BRUSH FACTORY
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:
- COATE'S BRUSH FACTORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Combe St. Nicholas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 32214 10853
Details
COMBE ST NICHOLAS CP ST31SW NIMMER
6/58 Coate's Brush Factory
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- II
Flour Mill, now factory. Probably C17, enlarged C19, Roughcast right and pebbledash left over rubble; slate roof with coped verges right gable end, brick stack centre at butt joint with later addition, pair of overlapping brick stacks centre right in addition. Plan: original block left (north) with waterwheel masked by later additions or gable end, mill leat above, addition to south. Three storeys, irregular fenestration to earlier block partially obscured by sheds, the main feature of interest being blocked 3-light hollow chamfer stone mullioned window with hoodmould to left of entrance in shed, 4-light to right of wide plank door, addition lit 2 bays right, some leaded iron casements, entrance centre of whole range with plank door and remains of trelliswork: wooden porch. Interior: overshot wheel with cast iron paddle and shaft drive remains in use and in fine condition, internal match-boarded partitions and features remaining from C19. The factory makes wooden hair brushes and appears to have altered little since the last century. A very interesting historical survival.
Listing NGR: ST3221410853
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430049
- 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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