Description

HORNINGSHAM THE ISLAND
ST 84 SW
(west side)
2/132 Nos 81 and 82
6.2.80

GV II

Wool drying house and attached workshop and cottage, now two semi-
detached cottages. Mid C18. No 81 is painted rubble stone with
tiled hipped roof and brick stack to right, No 82 is rubble stone
with tiled roof. No 81 is two storey, 2-windowed; casements with
4-panelled door to left of centre and 2-light casement either side,
two 2-light casements to first floor. Left return has 2-light
casement to first floor. Single storey outhouse linking No 81 with
No 82 has planked door and two 2-light casements, tall brick stack.
No 81 is former octagonal drying house; 2 storeys with planked
door in gabled porch, tiled offset to first floor, 1-light casement
over door and decoration with bottle ends. Left return has blocked
openings on ground and first floor, C19 stack now on this wall.
Rear has 2-light casements.
Interiors not accessible, but altered C20.
These buildings are all that remains of a former woollen industry
in Horningsham, formerly with larger mill and factory complex,
owned by the Everett family during the late C18 and early C19.
(K.H. Rogers, Wiltshire and Somerset Woollen Mills, 1976.)

Listing NGR: ST8159041151

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26288037

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)