Description

1.
5250 KIDDERMINSTER SLINGFIELD MILLS
Chimney and Boiler
House.
SO 87 NE SP/673
0/673

II GV

2.
Mill chimney and boiler house. 1864-70 for Thomas Lea. Chimney of red brick with
blue and buff brick bands and decorative features. Tapering square plan structure
about 180 feet high, said to have been reduced by about 40 feet in 1981. Nine
stages defined by blue brick bands. Clasping angle buttresses with alternating bands
of blue and buff bricks.

Alternating stages on each face have a central narrow arched blank recess: Arches
and impost band in buff brick. Top stage contains a pair of similar arched recesses
to each face. Attached boiler house of brick painted white, slate hipped roof, cogged
brick eaves cornice. Two storeys, five bays. Large window with barred sashes to
ground floor with central pivoted opening sections. Windows to first floor set in
arcade with flush key blocks and moulded imposts to arches. Some C20 alterations.
Boiler house included for group value only.

Listing NGR: SO8293976571

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26392158

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)