Buildings at Longfords Mills
BUILDINGS AT LONGFORDS MILLS, 1 AND 1A
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340447
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Buildings at Longfords Mills
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDINGS AT LONGFORDS MILLS, 1 AND 1A
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340447
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Buildings at Longfords Mills
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILDINGS AT LONGFORDS MILLS, 1 AND 1A
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:
- BUILDINGS AT LONGFORDS MILLS, 1 AND 1A
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Avening
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86658 99194
Details
In the entry for:-
ST 89 NE MINCHINHAMPTON AVENING VALLEY
7/166 Blender shed and store (Building Nos 1 and la) at Longfords Mills
GV II
The entry shall be amended to read:
ST 89 NE MINCHINHAMPTON AVENING VALLEY
7/166 Buildings nos 1 and lA at Longfords Mills
GV II
Steam-powered spinning mill, latterly used as blender shed and store and now disused. Dated 1858, initials WP (William Playne) to left of main entrance. Coursed and dressed limestone; ashlar chimney; Welsh slate roof. Rectangular plan with later south-west wing. 2 Storeys. West front: 12 window fenestration in 6 pairs, each segmental-arched with 8-pane casements to upper floor, 12-pane to ground floor, all with fixed lights apart from small opening casement at head. Plain sill bands. Entrance to right of centre with gantry and large upper floor doorway. Parallel pitched roofs to main block with continuous roof-lights and central louvred ridge ventilators with spike finials. Tall chimney stack at north west corner with tapering octagonal shaft and moulded top. South-facing return wing (lA) has 4 gables; continuous rows of north-facing roof-lights. Gables supported on heavy timber beams with cast-iron supports. Interior: 3 rows of cast-iron columns 3.5 metres high. Small recesses for heating stores to gable ends. 7-bay king-post roof with iron king-posts, in two parallel rows set on cast-iron column supports. RCHM suggests that mill was built for spinning on mules with preparation machinery, such as carding engines, sited on the ground floor. Both storeys were powered with longitudinal line shafts. (N.M. Herbert, "Minchinhampton", in V.C.H. Glos xi, 1976, pp 184-207; J. Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, 1967; RCHM report, 1991).
------------------------------------------------------------------ ST 89 NE MINCHINHAMPTON AVENING VALLEY
7/166 Blender shed and store (Building Nos 1 and la) at Longfords Mills
GV II
Part of Longfords Mills, now used as blender shed and store, formerly one of main woollen mill buildings housing spinning and weaving, mostly in Avening CP. Dated 1858, initials WP (William Playne) to left of main entrance. Coursed and dressed limestone; ashlar chimney; Welsh slate roof. Two-storey; large L-plan. West front: 12-windows fenestration in 6 pairs, each segmental arched with 8-pane to upper floor, 12-pane to ground floor, fixed- lights apart from small opening casement at head. Plain sill bands. Entrance to right of centre with gantry and large upper floor doorway. Parallel pitched roofs to main block with continuous roof-lights and central timber ridge ventilator with spike finial. Tall chimney stack at north west corner with tapering octagonal shaft and moulded top. South-facing return wing has 4 gables; continuous rows of north-facing roof-lights. Gables supported on heavy timber beams with cast-iron column supports. Interior: 3 rows of cast-iron columns 3.5m high. Ancient mill site, earlier buildings adjoining to north, wholly in Minchinhampton CP (q.v.). (N.M. Herbert, 'Minchinhampton' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 184- 207; and J. Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, 1967)
Listing NGR: ST8665599180
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132959
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 184-207
Tann, J, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, (1967)
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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