AVON MILLS, OUTER BULDINGS

AVON MILLS, OUTER BULDINGS, ST JOHNS BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269279
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: AVON MILLS, OUTER BULDINGS
Statutory Address:: AVON MILLS, OUTER BULDINGS, ST JOHNS BRIDGE

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Date:: 1999-10-31
Reference:: IOE01/00306/30
Rights:: © Mr G Williams. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269279
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: AVON MILLS, OUTER BULDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: AVON MILLS, OUTER BULDINGS, ST JOHNS BRIDGE

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:: AVON MILLS, OUTER BULDINGS, ST JOHNS BRIDGE

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Malmesbury
National Grid Reference:: ST 93583 86884

Details

MALMESBURY

ST9386 ST JOHN'S BRIDGE 758-1/3/295 (East side) 12/12/51 Avon Mills, Outer Buildings

GV II

Woollen mill, now flats. 1790 for Francis Hill, converted 1984. Limestone rubble with ashlar and brick dressings and a slate roof. PLAN: L-shaped block of 2 single-depth ranges. EXTERIOR: 5 storeys and attic; 8:8-window range. Plain, regular ranges with coved cornice and ashlar parapets ramped up at the ends, coped end gables, with 1-window linking section to the E end of the N block containing a segmental-arched through carriageway with key and imposts. Brick segmental-arched heads to C20 3-light casements, some blocked, 4 dormers each; C20 doorway in the S block 5 bays from the archway with lower flanking windows, a 2-centre arched doorway in the right-hand side of the carriageway, and a round-headed doorway in the rear elevation of the N block 4 bays from the archway. The S block built into the hill behind, which has a similar elevation with a continuous dormer to a flat-roofed end section over the corner. INTERIOR: not inspected, but reported to be largely late C20. HISTORICAL NOTE: originally called Burton Hill Mill, enlarged 1803, converted to steam power 1838. Other uses include a corn mill c1825, and silk mill c1850. (Victoria History of the Counties of England: Crowley DA: Wiltshire: 1991-: 146).

Listing NGR: ST9358986878

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Legacy System number:: 460943
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Crowley, B A, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1991), 146

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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.