14, Freer Street
14, FREER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392788
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-2005
- List Entry Name:
- 14, Freer Street
- Statutory Address:
- 14, FREER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392788
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-2005
- List Entry Name:
- 14, Freer Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14, FREER 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:
- 14, FREER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 01567 98458
Details
1690/0/10054
WALSALL
FREER STREET
14
27-MAY-05
II
Early C19 house with lorinery workshop to rear. The building is of red Flemish bond brick with painted stone dressings and plain slate roof.
It is of three storeys, with three bays to front. There is a gable end stack to left and originally to right also. The building has a symmetrical classical style façade with 6/6 sashes to ground and first floors with painted stone sills and bracketed lintels. The second floor has smaller square windows with plain stone lintels and sills which were blocked at the time of survey [2004]. There is a central doorway to ground floor with more elaborate console and projecting lintel. The left ground floor window has been converted to a doorway. The reveals to the façade are blank.
Cornices to ground floor front rooms and fireplace to one ground floor room. Open string staircase with moulded tread ends to lowest flight, but the newel and balustrade have been removed.
Workshop: to the rear of the property single storey red brick workshop ranges extend around the southwest side and the rear of the courtyard with a blocked window to the S.W. wall with a segmental brick arch. The courtyard appears to have been roofed at a later date and a hearth also built there. The interior of the workshops have brick floors.
History: the site was originally used by a harness manufacturer, later by a manufacturer of harness ornamentation, and during the C20 the workshop produced purse and handbag catches. This reflects the changing nature of the leather industry in Walsall from the C19 to C20. As demand for equestrian goods declined, especially after World War I, production shifted to 'fancy goods' such as purses, handbags, suitcases etc.
14 Freer Road is an interesting and very rare survival of the Walsall leather industry. It represents the earliest 'domestic' phases of the industry with owner's accommodation and workshop occupying the same site. The presence of hearths within the workshop is of particular note.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491901
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ironbridge Institute Research Paper in The Identification and Evaluation of Surviving Sites Associated with the Leather and Allied Trades, Vol. 44, (1993)
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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