Factory Building Outbuilding Attached To Number 55

WITNEY WEST END SP3510, SP3510SE (South side) 5/254, 9/254 No.55 and attached outbuilding 9/09/87 and factory building (Formerly listed as Nos.55 and 57) GV II

House, made into blanket-making factory in early C19 and now offices and store. Late C17/early C18, with later alterations. Coursed limestone rubble; C19 stucco front. Gabled stone slate roof; ridge stack of stone finished in brick. L-plan with rear left wing. 2 storeys; 5-window range. Timber lintel over through-entry with C19 plank doors to right. C20 windows except late C17/early C18 wood-mullioned and transomed cross windows to right of first floor (3) and to left of ground floor (2). Gabled hoist opening has plank door and wood jib-crane. Two late C17 and early C18 two-storey ranges to rear left, of similar materials, with early C19 keyed brick segmental arches over openings and two C18 gabled roof dormers. Interior: stop-chamfered and chamfered beams. Collar-truss roof with butt purlins, and butt-purlin roof to rear left. Subsidiary features: late C17/early C18 outbuilding to rear left, of similar materials: L-plan, of 2 storeys; plank door beneath stone steps to plank loft door; interior has C19 cobbled runway, chamfered beams and C17 collar truss to rear. Early C19 factory further to rear, of squared and coursed limestone with gabled Welsh-slate roof. 3-storey, 4-window range. Keyed brick segmental arches, segmental stone arches and attic timber lintels over casement windows; plank loft doors to first floor and attic, the latter with iron jib-crane. Interior; chamfered beams, quarter-turn stairs and king-post roof. Formerly a blanket-making factory owned by the Early family. (See 1876 O.S, map).

Listing NGR: SP3569410503