LLANTHONY PROVENDER MILL

LLANTHONY PROVENDER MILL, MERCHANTS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271710
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: LLANTHONY PROVENDER MILL
Statutory Address:: LLANTHONY PROVENDER MILL, MERCHANTS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271710
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: LLANTHONY PROVENDER MILL
Statutory Address 1:: LLANTHONY PROVENDER MILL, MERCHANTS 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:: LLANTHONY PROVENDER MILL, MERCHANTS ROAD

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Gloucester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 82534 17848

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO8217 MERCHANTS' ROAD 844-1/15/201 Llanthony Provender Mill 12/03/73 (Formerly Listed as: BAKER'S QUAY Gloucester And Sharpness Canal Llanthony Provender Mill)

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Also known as: Foster Brothers Oil and Cake Mill MERCHANT'S ROAD. Provender mill. Original block 1862. By George Hunt of Evesham for Foster Brothers, extensive enlargement and additions 1890-5; extensive C20 additions and alterations. Red brick, with bands of blue engineering bricks, gabled slate roof with two gabled roof vents on ridge of main block, large C20 additions faced in corrugated iron. PLAN: a core block with gable-end wall of five bays towards Baker's Quay and sides of five bays. The west gable-end wall partly obscured by an added hoist housing supported on four cast-iron columns above the Quay, replacing an earlier, timber-framed, full-width, gabled structure above the Quay, taken down when the revetment wall collapsed in 1892; the block extended to the east by about seven further bays and a two parallel, end-gabled, lower ranges added on the south side, and a further short, parallel range for work shops added at the east end of the south side, EXTERIOR: original block and its eastern extension of five storeys and loft, two parallel ranges on south side of two storeys and lofts, work shop range of two storeys. Much of the detail of the original block obscured by later additions and alterations; generally the elevations of the original block have a tall ground floor storey capped by a stone band, on the upper floors the bays defined by brick strip and quoin pilasters; in each upper floor in each bay a window with brick cambered-arched head set with a key stone below an ashlar course at each-floor level; the east gable-end walls to the extension to the original block and the parallel ranges to south each of three bays, and all with similar brick details with strip and quoin pilasters defining each bay; generally the windows to each floor with cambered-arched heads, in the gable of the southern range in the wide central bay a large, inserted C20 delivery doorway, above in the gable a semicircular lunette window with brick arch set with a keystone.

The workshop range adjoining on the south side is painted white, and has flat, composition roof; single-bay wide and the south side of four bays of varying width, the front facing Merchants' Road on the ground floor has a wide doorway with flat head on flush brackets and on the first floor a semicircular-arched recess framing a smaller semicircular-arched fixed light with metal glazing bars, in the side wall similar windows on both floors with segmental-arched heads and fixed lights with metal glazing bars. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History: Gloucester: 1984-: 69).

Listing NGR: SO8253417848

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Legacy System number:: 472348
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Sources

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Conway Jones, H, Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History, (1984), 69

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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.