The Collar Factory
The Collar Factory, 112, St. Augustine Street, TA1 1QN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391326
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- The Collar Factory
- Statutory Address:
- The Collar Factory, 112, St. Augustine Street, TA1 1QN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391326
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- The Collar Factory
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Collar Factory, 112, St. Augustine Street, TA1 1QN
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 Collar Factory, 112, St. Augustine Street, TA1 1QN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Taunton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 22990 25018
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 October 2023 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards
744/0/10018
ST AUGUSTINE STREET
No 112
(The Collar Factory)
(Formerly listed as Former Shirt and Collar Factory; premises of Barnicotts Limited, printers.)
II
Shirt and collar factory. Circa 1890s; probably designed by A. B. Cottam. Red brick with concrete dressings. Slate roof with parapeted gable ends.
PLAN: Long 12-bay three-storey building with three-bay wing on south east side; later single-storey outshut in the angle.
Late Victorian Renaissance style.
EXTERIOR: three storeys. North east and south west gable ends of three bays with giant brick pilaster buttresses with scroll pediment caps, three-light wooden window frames, the second floor with round-arch heads and glazing bars, the centre with stringcourse rising over as hoodmould; the gables with small pedimented apex and moulded coping. The north west and south east side elevations have large three-light wooden frame windows between pilaster buttresses supporting deep eaves, bay six on south east side has taking-in doors on each floor and three-bay wing to left with similar, but two-bay gable end and lift tower in angle on left; slender brick chimney stack on third buttress from left end on south east side and later single storey outshut below.
INTERIOR altered, but ground floor contained manager's and clerks' offices, a cutting room, a washing and starching room and an engine room; first floor was machining and turning room and the second floor was for ironing and polishing.
NOTE: St Augustine Street Shirt and Collar Factory was built for the Tone Vale Manufacturing Company, whose proprietor was Henry J. Van Trump.
An example of a late Victorian textile factory of some architectural distinction producing the specific product of a local industry.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 494120
- 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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