Albert Mill
ALBERT MILL, ST CLEMENTS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1384631
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1974
- Statutory Address:
- ALBERT MILL, ST CLEMENTS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1384631
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1974
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALBERT MILL, ST CLEMENTS ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ALBERT MILL, ST CLEMENTS ROAD
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 65647 67908
Details
KEYNSHAM
ST6567 ST CLEMENT'S ROAD
739-1/5/54 (East side)
29/10/74 Albert Mill
II
Grist mill, now flats. c1830; restored and converted 1992.
Squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, copings and
stacks, gabled slate roofs; render and slate roofs to C20
ranges. Tudor Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: large complex of mill buildings set at an angle into the
River Chew, with the leat leading under at the south-east
corner towards the weir sluice.
EXTERIOR: long 3-storey; 9-window north range with 2 rear
wings and 1992 ranges to south and west. Main range has
2-light chamfered mullions with dripstones and relieving
arches to all floors, those to first floor larger; 3 loading
doors with segmental heads, keystones and C20 glazing to
ground-floor centre. Shallow-pitched gabled roofs; 2 end
stacks with tall Tudor style shafts with caps. (C20 ranges
with similar dripstoned openings and casement fenestration).
2-storey lean-to extension towards the weir sluice with an
external waterwheel in a pit.
INTERIOR: to centre of main range on ground-floor 2
waterwheels in situ. They are breast-shot, one being enclosed
within the building. Edge runner stones for crushing logwood.
HISTORICAL NOTE: it is possible that cotton was manufactured
on the site in the 1780s. The mill was used latterly to
process logwood which produced black dye.
The building is graded as an industrial monument of
considerable interest on account of its machinery and rarity
value in the area.
(White E: Keynsham and Saltford: Keynsham: 1990-: 22, 24 AND
25; Buchanan RA and Cossons N: The Industrial Archaeology of
The Bristol Region: Newton Abbot: 1969-: 53, 73; BIAS Journal:
Bristol: 1974-; Day J: Bristol Glass: The History of the
Industry: Newton Abbot: 1973-).
Listing NGR: ST6564767908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485066
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
White, E, Keynsham and Saltford, (1990), 22,24,25
Buchanan, Angus, Cossons, Neil, The Industrial Archaeology of the Bristol Region, (1968), 53,73
Day, J, Bristol Brass: A History of the Industry, (1973)
Bristol Industrial Archaeology Society Journal in Bristol Industrial Archaeology Society Journal, (1974)
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