Harris Bacon Factory Building at Town Mills

HARRIS BACON FACTORY BUILDING AT TOWN MILLS, CORONATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1264284
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1990
Statutory Address:
HARRIS BACON FACTORY BUILDING AT TOWN MILLS, CORONATION ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1264284
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1990
Statutory Address 1:
HARRIS BACON FACTORY BUILDING AT TOWN MILLS, CORONATION ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
HARRIS BACON FACTORY BUILDING AT TOWN MILLS, CORONATION ROAD

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

County:
Devon
District:
South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:
Totnes
National Grid Reference:
SX 80573 60489

Details

SX 80 60 TOTNES CORONATION ROAD

2/243 and 4/243 Harris Bacon Factory building at Town Mills

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Probably a canal warehouse. Circa 1850s with early and later C20 extensions. Limestone rubble with red brickwindow dressings,slate roof with gabled end.

Plan: Long rectangular range with putative engine house at north end and circa early C20 smoking kilns at south end.

Exterior 3 storeys. Almost symmetrical 7-bay west front facing leat, plus lower 2 storey 1 - bay former engine house to left. 2-light casements with horizontal glazing bars in cambered redbrick arch openings. On ground floor wide doorway at centre and narrow doorway to right both with segmental brick arches and blocked. At the north end the 2 - storey engine house has 3 - light casement on ground floor and doorway to left. Low redbrick C20 range attached to north end and circa early C20 red brick smoking kilns on south end with ventilators on ridge of roof. Late C20 additions at rear.

Interior not inspected.

Note: Roughly on the site of an earlier fulling /woollen mill it was built as a canal warehouse for transferring goods from sea to canal craft, as well as for storage. The 2 - storey section at the north end may have been a water powered engine house to drive a hoist.

Source: Martin Watts.

Listing NGR: SX8057360489

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428285
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