Former Shirt Factory To West Of Number 3

This former shirt factory dates to the 1890s and is located to the west of number 3 Abbey Street, Crewkerne. It is constructed of Flemish-bond brick with a Ham Hill stone plinth, platbands, cills, and cornice. The roof is half-hipped and covered in slate, with a glazed gablet. The building has a roughly L-shaped plan and is three storeys high, originally with a four-window front. Large, cambered arched, tripartite windows are present throughout, each containing three rows of four panes of glass in both the top and bottom sashes. The front features recessed panels containing the windows, cill bands to the ground and first floors, and platbands to the ground floor, at impost level, and above the windows. Pilasters between the bays above the first floor have moulded cornices contributing to an entablature, with the cornice also serving as a cill band to the attic storey. A stepped brick cornice appears at the eaves. The right return presents a similar appearance with five bays and three windows centrally, with blank bays on either side. The ground floor of this return features a covered loading bay with a fretted bargeboard and vertical glazing between the bay and the lintel to the double planked and glazed doors. The interior has not been inspected. An Ordnance Survey map from 1886 identifies the building as a shirt factory. The building is included on the list for its group value.