12, Snailbeach
12, SNAILBEACH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1435717
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- 12, Snailbeach
- Statutory Address:
- 12, SNAILBEACH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1435717
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- 12, Snailbeach
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, SNAILBEACH
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:
- 12, SNAILBEACH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Worthen with Shelve
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3797102354
Details
SJ37970235 MINSTERLEY SNAILBEACH
1101/0/10008 No. 12
GV II
Cottage. Early C19 (shown on 1847 tithe map). Painted rubble with brick right-end stack to Welsh slate roof. 2-unit plan. 2 storeys. 2-window south front with one (first-floor left) and 2-light (to right) C20 timber casements, the ground-floor one set under segmental brick arch. Mid C20 timber porch to left, and brick lean-to to right. Interior not inspected. HISTORY: A little-altered example of a worker's cottage associated with the mining industry, and in this case associated with a site of national importance. Houses of this type were commonly built in association with the growth of industrial sites in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Lead mining in the Snailbeach area is believed to date from the Roman period. The surviving structures - most of which are included as part of the extensive Scheduled Ancient Monument - comprise the most complete group associated with the lead industry to have survived anywhere in England, relating to the development of the industry from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. They were built for the Snailbeach Mining Company, which commenced operations here in 1783. The site then specialised in the production of barytes for the paint industry. Nucleated lead mines such as this, thousands of which were built, relate to the development of the lead industry during the Industrial Revolution.
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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