94-99 Bath Street including 28A-32 Shadwell Street

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SP 08 NE 997-0/7/99

BATH STREET Nos 94 - 99

Including Nos. 28A - 32(consecutive), Shadwell Street

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Gun making factory. 1839-40 extended 1850-59. Flemish bond red brick. painted on Shadwell Street elevation, inner ranges have Flemish stretcher bond stretcher bond brick walls. Slate roofs with gabled ends. Rectangular plan overall with ranges facing Bath Street (south east) and Shadwell Street (north west) and three linking ranges framing two rectangular central courtyards. Two storey fourteen and fifteen-window ranges to Bath Street and Shadwell Street respectively. 25-pane cast-iron windows in segmental-headed openings with stone cills.

Bath Street has rounded doorway to left and right with flush-panelled double doors, and semi-circular fanlights, the right hand (No 98) with radiating glazing bars. Shadwell Street (north west) elevation has cambered arch doorway to left and right of centre, first floor leaded door to left of centre and two later vehicular entrances at centre. The elevations facing the inner court yards had similar multi-pane cast-iron windows in segmental headed openings, the centre range has brick buttresses between the windows. Apart from the north west range which is two storeys the other elevations on the inner courtyards are three storeys because the yard level is lower than Bath Street.

Interior: Little altered since C19. Winder and cast-iron spiral staircases, old counter and time clock for 'clocking-in' in central range. Cast-iron chimneypiece in office and iron grate in second floor offices. Boarded rafters to roofs with king-post trusses.

Note The Bath Street (SE) range was built in 1839-40 for William Read a coach builder. By 1860 Thomas Mabbutt a gun implement maker occupied part of Read's buildings which by then had been extended around two courtyards and to Shadwell Street. By 1871 Mabbutt occupied the whole building and the 1876 Directory lists the whole building as occupied by Abingdon Works Company Ltd., its managing director being Thomas Mabbutt. The factory was taken over in circa 1907-8 by Humphries and Dawes, Cycle Makers. Since 1913 it has been occupied by various gun makers and light engineering firms.

Listing NGR: SP0709387645