West Lodge
WEST LODGE, BLACKSMITH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377757
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- West Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- WEST LODGE, BLACKSMITH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377757
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- West Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST LODGE, BLACKSMITH LANE
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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:
- WEST LODGE, BLACKSMITH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Martha
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 02486 47476
Details
ST MARTHA
431/4/88 BLACKSMITH LANE
21-MAY-85 CHILWORTH
WEST LODGE
II
Lodge to gunpowder works; now house. Late C19. Flemish bond brick, brick ridge stacks and gabled tiled roof.
PLAN: Single-depth 2-room house with single-room gatehouse attached.
EXTERIOR: Single-storey, 1-window gatehouse and 1-window house behind. Lower gatehouse has a gable end with left corner canted and two 3/1-pane sashes, blocked doorway in left return, and a chimney at rear right. The house has gable ends with rough-cast and exposed trusses and single casements, a later porch in the re-entrant with the gatehouse, a gabled bay window to the left, and blind rear.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: Chilworth gunpowder mills operated from the early C17 until it closed in 1920, and is one of the most important sites for the history of the industry in this country. From 1885 it started producing smokeless powder under the control of a German company, Burbach, who invested in new plant and buildings.
The gatehouse is from this period, and overlooked the entrance to the E part of the works.
(Crocker, G, Chilworth Gunpowder Mills, Surrey Industrial History Group, 1984)
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Listing NGR: TQ0248647476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288345
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crocker, G, Chilworth Gunpowder, (1984)
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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