HARRIS BACON FACTORY BUILDING AT TOWN MILLS

HARRIS BACON FACTORY BUILDING AT TOWN MILLS, CORONATION ROAD

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

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

II

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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Legacy System number:: 428285
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.