Fort Pendlestone Including Sluice and Leat Bridge to North
FORT PENDLESTONE INCLUDING SLUICE AND LEAT BRIDGE TO NORTH, A 442
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268454
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Fort Pendlestone Including Sluice and Leat Bridge to North
- Statutory Address:
- FORT PENDLESTONE INCLUDING SLUICE AND LEAT BRIDGE TO NORTH, A 442
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268454
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Fort Pendlestone Including Sluice and Leat Bridge to North
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORT PENDLESTONE INCLUDING SLUICE AND LEAT BRIDGE TO NORTH, A 442
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:
- FORT PENDLESTONE INCLUDING SLUICE AND LEAT BRIDGE TO NORTH, A 442
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgnorth
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 72377 94332
Details
BRIDGNORTH
SO79SW
823-0/22/10036
A442 (WEST SIDE)
Fort Pendlestone including sluice and leat bridge to north
II
Textile mill. Formerly ‘Pendlestone Mills’. Built circa 1845, for Thomas C. Whitmore of Apley Hall; engine-house and boiler-house added in 1866 and with some C20 additions and alterations. Red sandstone ashlar. Plain tile roofs with parapeted gable ends with saddle-back coping; factory range has flat roof with lantern lights.
PLAN: Eight-bay factory with its water-mill house attached to the north end and with a warehouse at right-angles to the south-east forming L-shaped plan. In 1866 a boiler-house was added to the south side of the warehouse and an engine-house was built to the south of the factory range. To the east of the factory range is the detached managers house and office, which has been extended to the south. To the north is the sluice and a bridge over the leat. Tudor Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: Large two-storey eight-bay factory with tall octagonal corner turrets with ventilation slits and pitched caps, larger stair-turret on north-east comer with battlements; the bays are divided by buttresses with set-offs and gabled at their tops above the parapet, stone mullion-transom windows with deeply chamfered reveals.
Attached to north end of factory is the small water-mill house bridged over mill race with arched doorways and two small windows on west side.
At right-angles to the south-east of the factory is the two-storey warehouse with a double-span roof with stepped gables, diagonal buttresses, four-light mullion-transom windows in the gable-end, the first floor with raised centre lights, six-bay north elevation with cross-mullion-transom windows and arched doorway in centre-right bay with loading door above.
Attached to the south side, the boiler-house with the base of the chimney on its east side and the engine-house to its left [west] with a C20 water-tank on top.
The manager's house to the east: two storeys, three bays, gabled centre bay breaks forward with set-offs, stone oriel and four-centred arch doorway with hoodmould with shield stops; two and three-light mullion windows; stepped north gable-end, its centre breaking forward with loop at top and French casement on ground floor; at south end the projecting office wing with a diagonal buttress has been extended in brick.
Across the leat to the north a three-bay brick bridge with chamfered four-centred arches and cutwaters and the sluice with cast and wrought-iron gates.
INTERIOR: The water-mill machinery, steam engine and later turbine have been removed. The factory range has cast-iron columns supporting iron beams and jack-arches; the first floor is top-lit from conical iron lanterns in the flat roof The warehouse range has cast-iron columns and iron beams.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 November 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461803
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Earl, J., McEvoy, A., McKnight, P ., Ironbridge Institute, dissertation, November 1995.
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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