Description

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CAMBORNE PENDARVES STREET
SW 64 SE
5/10000 Front range to former Bickford
Smith's Fuseworks
GV II

Range of offices to former fuseworks. Partly mid C19, but
rebuilt and refronted in 1910 when the site, occupied by a
foundry, was acquired by Bickford Smith's fuseworks. Coursed and
dressed granite with dry slate roof and brick stacks.
Rectangular plan with off-centre through-entry. One-storey, 4-
bay range to right of 2-storey, 3-bay range. Left-hand range has
full-height canted bays with mullioned windows flanking central
bay which has slightly-projecting entrance bay with rusticated
pilasters, Dutch gable and 2-light segmental-arched stone-
mullioned window with moulded imposts set above keyed segmental-
arched doorway with moulded imposts. Similar windows to
pedimented left-hand return. One-storey range to right has
rusticated facade. Central gabled entrance bay has keyed semi-
circular arch; rusticated outer arches surmounted by oculi flank
large square-headed window openings. Projecting canted bay to
office at rear. William Bickford devised the safety fuse early
in the 19th century. Manufacture was commenced at Tuckingmill
in 1831 and the present site was acquired in 1910. An invention
of great significance to the industry.

Listing NGR: SW6603141076

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456223

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]