Minerva Needle Works
MINERVA NEEDLE WORKS, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250089
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Minerva Needle Works
- Statutory Address:
- MINERVA NEEDLE WORKS, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250089
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Minerva Needle Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- MINERVA NEEDLE WORKS, STATION ROAD
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:
- MINERVA NEEDLE WORKS, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alcester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 08575 57637
Details
The following building shall be added:
ALCESTER SP0857 STATION ROAD 419-0/4/10000 (North East side) Minerva Needle Works
II Needlemaking factory. Circa 1880-5 for Alfred Allwood, needlemaker; C20 extension at rear. Red brick with terracotta dressings. Hipped Welsh slate roof with lead roll hips and crested ridge tiles. 2 small brick axial stacks. PLAN: Long and shallow 20-bay range with 2 short rear wings at either end, the righthand wing's SE return has a 5-bay front; the space between the rear wings has been infilled by a C20 extension. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 20-bay south west front with round-headed windows in recessed panels with enriched moulded terracotta imposts and heads and ramped cills. Also moulded terracotta eaves course. Multi-pane cast-iron windows. Central doorway with segmental arch. Righthand south east return is similar, but 5 bays and with round-headed doorway. At rear 2-bay wings to left and right, C20 extension between the wings and 3 bays to right. INTERIOR: Part of the rear wall of the main range has been demolished creating partly open plan on the ground and tint floors. HISTORY: William Allwood and his son Joseph were needlemakers in premises at Henley Street, Alcester, but here they employed outworkers for such stages in the manufacturing process as spitting and packeting and the scouring would have been done by another mill. The firm was so successful that in circa 1880-5 Joseph Allwood's son, Alfred, moved to this purpose-built factory in Station Road. It is believed that all the processes of needlemaking were done here. The needle's brand name was Minerva and the firm also produced hat-pins with glass birds on the end. In 1912 the premises were bought by Terry's Springs, makers of the Anglepoise lamp. SOURCE: Needlemakers and Needlemaking of Alcester, Sambourne and Studley Area, paper no.24; Alcester and District Local History Society; 1981.
Listing NGR: SP0857557637
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432323
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Needlemakers and Needlemaking of the Alcester Sambourne and Studley Area, (1981)
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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