Bowden'S Old Lace Factory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1950. Factory.
Bowden'S Old Lace Factory
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-keystone-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1950
- Type
- Factory
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHARD
ST3308 BODEN STREET 756-1/4/6 (East side) 24/03/50 Bowden's Old Lace Factory
GV II
Lace factory, now works. c1825. Flemish bond brick on limestone rubble plinth. 3 storeys, 14-window range to front, 3-window range to left return and 4 windows to right return; circular tie-plates between each window on each floor to front and back. Projecting loading bay to right in style of archway (qv) of 1901; stone coping to front gable end over canted bay with hipped stone roof. High door above plinth and entrance to right return, all with heavily rusticated quoins and dressings. INTERIOR: divided into small commercial lots, but mostly cast-iron piers to vaulted brick ceilings. The lace or plain net trade became established after 1820 by manufacturers who fled from the Luddite resistance they had faced in the Midlands. (Aston: Historic Towns in Somerset: 1977-; Buchanan CA: Industrial Archaeology of Central Southern England: 1980-: P.123).
Listing NGR: ST3239008451
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