Mill Building To Ansford Factory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Mill building.
Mill Building To Ansford Factory
- WRENN ID
- waiting-corner-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Mill building
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CASTLE CARY CP UPPER HIGH STREET (North side) ST6432 6/121 Mill building to Ansford Factory GV II
Original mill building. 1851, for John Boyd, horsehair weaver. Hadspen stone cut and squared; Welsh slate roof between coped gables, the south gable having a bell turret, the bell removed. Three storeys, 13 bays. Casement windows of 16 panes in plain openings with proud-set voussoirs and keystones to flat arches: lower bay 1, and second floor above, has pairs plain boarded doors, and matching doors lower bay 13. Second floor door and steel fire escape on north gable. Interior not greatly modified. The first building on this site of John Boyd's horsehair and general weaving establishment, relocated from South Cary (Chapel Yard House, qv) to the grounds of Ochiltree House (qv) in 1851. (McGarvie M, Castle Cary: Avalon Industries, 1980).
Listing NGR: ST6433632500
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