HOMEWELL PARCHMENT WORKS

HOMEWELL PARCHMENT WORKS, 18, HOMEWELL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362081
Date first listed:: 23-Sep-1997
List Entry Name:: HOMEWELL PARCHMENT WORKS
Statutory Address:: HOMEWELL PARCHMENT WORKS, 18, HOMEWELL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362081
Date first listed:: 23-Sep-1997
List Entry Name:: HOMEWELL PARCHMENT WORKS
Statutory Address 1:: HOMEWELL PARCHMENT WORKS, 18, HOMEWELL

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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:: HOMEWELL PARCHMENT WORKS, 18, HOMEWELL

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Havant (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 71685 06160

Details

SU 7106 HOMEWELL (South, off) 100/10/20001 No.18 Homewell Parchment Works

GV II

Alternatively known as: The Parchment Industrial Buildings, THE PARCHMENT.

Parchment making works. From late C18 or early C19, to late C19. Mainly brick with slate roofs, and weatherboarded and corrugated-iron clad timber frame. Buildings are arranged around a drying yard:- [a] to the NE of yard: Hanging and Liming Lofts, over former treatment tanks. Circa mid C19. Brick with gable-ended slate roofs. Used for initial stages of parchment making, still has 2 skin soaking tanks [filled in] fed from the stream. The skins were limed on first floor and hung on the second floor which is slatted and has louvred windows for ventilation. The north gable has an oculus.

[b] on NE corner of site: Treatment Shed with tanks and storage loft above. Circa late C19. Weatherboarded timber frame, gabled slate roofs. At least 17 soaking tanks on ground floor, fed from stream which passes through SE corner of building. First floor was probably used for storing lime used in the initial and finishing stages of the process.

[c] flanking E of entrance: Former office and store. Circa late C18/ early C19. Brick with 2-span slate gable-ended roof. Originally single storey and possibly the gatehouse or office. Raised to 2 storeys in mid C19 and extended on north side in early C20.

[d] on SE side of yard: Skin processing range. Early-mid C19. Long 2-storey brick range with slate roof. Probably used in the intermediate stages of parchment making, removing fat from the skins, and splitting the skins, the outer skin being used for leather. Had low ceilings, but first floor has been removed. At south end circa early-mid C19 single storey range where the final stages of process were carried out before drying, removal of grease by applying whiting and soda and allowing to dry.

[e] SE end of yard: Scalding range. Circa mid C19. Weatherboarded. Used for heating water and scalding skins before drying. Has 2 parallel drainage channels in floor.

[f] on SW side of yard: Drying Shed. Circa late C18 or early C19. Weatherboarded and corrugated-iron clad timber frame with corrugated iron gable-ended roof . Long range, originally open on east side to drying yard. The roof has been raised and the floor structure lowered.

[g] on W side of yard: Drying Chamber. Circa late C18 or early C19. Brick with hipped state roof. Had kiln for drying finished parchment during damp weather. 2 of the 4 bays have smoke-blackened plaster hood. Floor removed. Wide doorway to east facing yard.

[h] flanking E of entrance: Warehouse. Circa 1847-1866 [map evidence]. Brick. Gable end facing entrance has horizontally pivoting windows with cambered arches and loading door on first floor. Later outshut on the north side.

HISTORY: Homewell Parchment Works was owned by the Stallard family until its closure in 1936. It was the last parchment works to close in Havant. The parchment works remain remarkably complete with most of the component buildings of the parchment making process surviving intact. (SOURCE: RCHME: Report: August 1997-:)

Listing NGR: SU7201705467

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Legacy System number:: 468858
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.