Dulverton Laundry

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SS9127 DULVERTON CP CHAPEL LANE (West side)

15/71 Dulverton Laundry -

GV II

Crepe factory, now laundry, Late C18-early C19, partly refenestrated mid-late C20. Random rubble local stone, wooden panels between windows, shallow pitched hipped slate roof. Plan: rectangular block originally identical north south sides. Stairs east end. Three storeys, 5-bays, full height rubble piers, rubble plinth and cornice divided by many paned leaded wooden casements second floor, 6-light end bay, two 4-light, one 3-light and 5-light wooden panels below, first floor mostly replaced with C20 plate glass, ground floor north face masked by additions, south face some casements still remaining, end bay right panelled over with square headed entrance, recessed 8-panel door with inserted light, lit upper 2 storeys on returns. Commended by Pevsner as a good example of an early industrial building.

(Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Soimerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: SS9128127774

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0618 IOE Records taken by Robin Downes; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Robin Downes. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project