Brass Mill Cottages

BRASS MILL COTTAGES, AVON MILL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384579
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1976
List Entry Name:
Brass Mill Cottages
Statutory Address:
BRASS MILL COTTAGES, AVON MILL LANE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384579
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1976
List Entry Name:
Brass Mill Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
BRASS MILL COTTAGES, AVON MILL 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BRASS MILL COTTAGES, AVON MILL 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:
Keynsham
National Grid Reference:
ST 65820 68842

Details

KEYNSHAM

ST6568 AVON MILL LANE
739-1/4/5 (East side)
20/08/76 Brass Mill Cottages

GV II

Cottage row and workshops, now disused. Early C19 with mid C20
alterations. Squared and coursed rubble with brass slag
dressings, brick infilling, some concrete lintels and gabled
pantile roof with catslide to rear.
PLAN: long 2-storey; 8-window range with garages to south and
2 cottages to north set parallel to the road.
EXTERIOR: east courtyard facade with segmental-headed door
openings and inserted mid C20 flat-headed garage openings to
ground-floor; paired casements to upper floor. Pre-cast copper
slag blocks form jambs to openings, and quoins. 3 part-glazed
garage doors to left-hand, plank doors to right-hand.
INTERIORS: most partition walls have disappeared and the
interiors have been gutted.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the cottages are said originally to have been
the smith's shop, two warehouses, a stable and four tenements
for the brass mill.
Forms a group with the Old Brass Mill (qv) and Avon House
(qv).
(White E: Keynsham and Saltford: Keynsham: 1990-: 27).



Listing NGR: ST6582068842

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Legacy System number:
485014
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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White, E, Keynsham and Saltford, (1990), 27

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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.

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