SILK DRYING SHED TO NORTH OF DARSHILL HOUSE

SILK DRYING SHED TO NORTH OF DARSHILL HOUSE, WELLS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345237
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1981
List Entry Name:: SILK DRYING SHED TO NORTH OF DARSHILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SILK DRYING SHED TO NORTH OF DARSHILL HOUSE, WELLS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345237
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1981
List Entry Name:: SILK DRYING SHED TO NORTH OF DARSHILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SILK DRYING SHED TO NORTH OF DARSHILL HOUSE, WELLS 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SILK DRYING SHED TO NORTH OF DARSHILL HOUSE, WELLS ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shepton Mallet
National Grid Reference:: ST 60397 43929

Details

ST6043 SHEPTON MALLET CP WELLS ROAD (South side) BOWLISH

6/258 Silk Drying Shed to North of Darshill House

23.7.81

- II

Silk drying shed. Early C19. Doulting rubble with rough quoins to ground floor, brick construction above, pantile roof. 2-storeys, one wide bay having fixed window with glazing bars and square head doorway with dressed stone surround to East side, C20 window and segmental arch doorway to West side. First floor on each of 3-sides has panels of perforated brick construction, one course thick, to provide ventilation, supported by solid panels with 9-single vent holes, being 2-courses thick. First floor door on North wall. An important survival of the once flourishing textile industry in this area. Locally known as a handle house.

Listing NGR: ST6039743929

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Legacy System number:: 266659
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.