Factory To East Of Number 3

ST4409 876-1/7/15 06/09/74

CREWKERNE ABBEY STREET (South side) Factory to east of No.3

GV II

Factory. c1880s. Coursed limestone rubble with Ham Hill stone quoins and dressings; slate roof. Palazzo style. 3 storeys; 10-window range, comprising 5 bays articulated by pilasters rising from plinth through continuous platband to entablature. Paired windows with small panes to the tops and larger ones below, separated by square-section mullions. The attic above the entablature has 8/2 casements in a recess with a rolled arris to the top. The first-floor has tall round-arch windows of 16/6-panes over a platband; the ground-floor has similar but flat-arched windows. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: the West Somerset and Devon Shirt Factory moved from Market Street in 1875, marked on O.S. map of 1886 as a shirt factory. (Victoria County History: Somerset: Oxford: 1978-: P.9).

Listing NGR: ST4406709856