Engineers' Shop And Training Centre At The Court Mills

The Engineers' Shop and Training Centre at the Court Mills was built around 1859. It features hammer dressed stone with red brick dressings and has a pitched slate roof. The building has coped gable ends on kneelers and a bell cote with a shaped gable at the south end, along with a finial at the north end that includes spirally placed black brick headers and a moulded brick cornice. It is two storeys high with attics and has nine ranges of industrial windows. The north end has one range enclosed in a red brick relieving arch. The south end features a cast iron external staircase supported by a brick wall and iron brackets leading to a balcony, which has elaborate ornamental balusters inscribed "J B Payne. Perry Street Works, Chard. 1859". Inside, there is one row of cast iron columns supporting brick jack arches, and cast iron brackets that originally held machinery on the ground floor.