The Old Vinegar Works
THE OLD VINEGAR WORKS, ST MARTIN'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390121
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vinegar Works
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VINEGAR WORKS, ST MARTIN'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390121
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vinegar Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VINEGAR WORKS, ST MARTIN'S STREET
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.
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:
- THE OLD VINEGAR WORKS, ST MARTIN'S STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 85337 55123
Details
WORCESTER
SO8555SW ST MARTIN'S STREET, LOWESMOOR
620-1/13/586 The Old Vinegar Works
08/03/74 (Formerly Listed as:
LOWESMOOR
(South side)
The Old Vinegar Factory)
GV II
Also known as: The Old Vinegar Factory PHEASANT STREET.
Warehouse. c1870 with later additions and alterations.
Pinkish-red brick with gault brick dressings, ashlar cornice and
capitals and slate and glass roof. Rectangular on plan. Single
tall storey, 13 x 11 window-bays. From first-stage band are gault
brick pilasters with ashlar caps, stepped frieze and modillion
cornice, low coped parapet. End bays have blind openings,
otherwise 20-pane segmental-arched windows in metal frames, with
voussoir arch of alternate red and gault brick. Lower stage
obscured to long side by temporary structures. Returns have
pedimented gables and similar treatment, with red brick pilasters
to lower stage and similar windows, with centrel plank doors;
5-stepped-light, round-arched windows with gault brick surrounds
in tympanum. Apex of roof is glazed.
INTERIOR: roof has two levels of metal collars and x-braces.
HISTORICAL NOTE: This building formed part of the Hill Evans
Vinegar Works 1830-c1960). It would have contained large wooden
vats for storage of vinegar. "The filling and dispatching room is
an enormous hall...it is one of the largest single rooms in the
kingdom....the great vats...are probably the most conspicuous and
impressive parts of the equipment. One of these vats, standing
among many of only slightly smaller size is 100 feet in
circumference and 32 feet high having a capacity of 114,821
gallons."- 'Worcester Daily Times', 1903.
(Worcester Daily Times: Not known: Worcester at Work: Worcester:
1903-: 5).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489091
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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