Description

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

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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

• Wikidata Q26392158

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)