Fleecing And Washing Shop/Drying Shed At Castlethorpe Tannery Approximately 100 Metres South Of Manor House

SE 9807 BROUGHTON B1208 (east side, off) Castlethorpe 18/28 Fleecing and washing shop/drying shed at 23.7.86 Castlethorpe Tannery approximately 100 metres south of Manor House

GV II

Fleecing and washing shop with drying shed over. Probably mid C19. Brick with pantile roof. Rectangular on plan, approximately 14 metres by 3 metres; stands over a stream at the south side of former tannery, with water entering building at east end. North side: low 2 storeys, 8 first- floor openings. Doorway to left (door missing) and 2 openings to right beneath timber lintels; series of wide first-floor openings running full length of building. Similar first-floor openings to south side. West gable-end: 3 ground-floor openings beneath timber lintels, doorway to first floor. East gable-end: round arch to stream culvert, 2 ground-floor openings beneath timber lintels, 2 wide first-floor openings with timber lintels supporting a third similar opening in the gable above. Interior: ground floor contains a tank at the east end, flooded by the stream, approximately 5 metres long and 2 metres wide, and divided laterally by timbers into 13 compartments, with a narrow plank platform and a flagged and brick-paved floor on the north side. A culvert carries the stream under the remainder of the building. At the east end is a pit with a large iron washing drum set in a wooden tank. First-floor openings formerly had Stevenson screens for ventilation. The earliest structures in the tannery, ruinous at time of resurvey, appear to be C18 - early C19. The tannery ceased operating earlier this century.

Listing NGR: SE9856007548