Mill Cottage
MILL COTTAGE, WOOLLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276921
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MILL COTTAGE, WOOLLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276921
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL COTTAGE, WOOLLEY LANE
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:
- MILL COTTAGE, WOOLLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Charlcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75034 68792
Details
CHARLCOMBE
146/5/250 WOOLLEY LANE
03-APR-90 (West side)
MILL COTTAGE
II
Former gunpowder incorporating mill, now house. Early -mid C18; converted to house in first half of C19; altered mid and late C20.
Limestone rubble with dressed quoins; wany-edged horizontal boarding; pantile hipped roof.
2 storeys; gable-end on. Roadside elevation; quoins. Originally open-fronted, now infilled with C20 horizontal boarding and having C20 garage doors to ground
floor and 2 late-C20 windows above. Hipped roof. Right return: various
blocked openings relating to original use. Left return: various C20 doors,
windows, dormer and additions. Interior has retained no visible features of interest.
HISTORY: The Woolley Gunpowder Works operated from the 1720s to c.1803. It was the first of three in Somerset which were started to supply local mining interests and also foreign markets through the port of Bristol, and all of which closed by the mid-C19. Woolley is important mostly as evidence of the dispersion of gunpowder making away from the South East during the C18. The location alongside the wheel pit of the earlier corn mill suggests milling also took place here. The light construction of the front was possibly intended to direct blast from an accidental explosion. An altered but very rare surviving example of its type, one of only two extant (and two other excavated) examples.
B J Buchanan and M T Tucker, "The Manufacture of Gunpowder: a study of the docu-
mentary and physical evidence relating to the Woolley Powder Works near Bath",
Industrial Archaeology Review, V, 3, Autumn 1981, pp 185-202; Brenda Buchanan, "The Technology of Gunpowder Making in the Eighteenth Century: Evidence from the Bristol Region", Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol. 67 (1995-6).
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Listing NGR: ST7503468792
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408171
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Buchanan, B J, Tucker, M T, Industrial Archaeology Review in The Manufacture of Gunpowder: A Study of the Documentary and Physical Evidence Relating to the Woolley Powder Works near Bath, Vol. 3, (1981), 185-202
Buchanan, B, Transactions of the Newcomen Society in The Technology of Gunpowder Making in the Eighteenth Century: Evidence from the Bristol Region, Vol. 67, (1995-6)
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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