Description

EAST CHALLOW MAIN STREET
SU38NE (East side)
2/23 Challow Industries

- II

Factory, now offices. Dated 1840 on central parapet. Ashlar Bath limestone;
Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys; 9-window range. Central entrance bay brought
forward and carried up to parapet with heavy dentilled cornice and ball finial;
keyed round-arch with impost blocks to partially blocked entry with C20 door;
stone lintels over 2 blocked doorways flanking central bay. Stone lintels over
sashes with half-H aprons on ground floor and reversed half-H aprons on first
floor. Hipped roof. Rear elevation has segmental pediment over central bay; sash
windows except 3 leaded casements in ground-floor round-headed windows. Interior
not inspected. Was factory of Nalder and Nalder, agricultural engineers.
(Kathleen Philip, Victorian Wantage, 1968, p.82; Public Records Office 1R29/2/34
(Tithe Map))

Listing NGR: SU3803888377

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26477773

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