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Latitude: 51.4175 / 51°25'3"N
Longitude: -2.3611 / 2°21'39"W
OS Eastings: 374988
OS Northings: 168787
OS Grid: ST749687
Mapcode National: GBR 0Q3.3WT
Mapcode Global: VH96F.1M5N
Plus Code: 9C3VCJ9Q+2H
Entry Name: Former Stable Approximately 40 Metres to South East of Rose Cottage
Listing Date: 3 April 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1232769
English Heritage Legacy ID: 408170
ID on this website: 101232769
Location: Woolley, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA1
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Civil Parish: Charlcombe
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Stable
ST 76 NW
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03-APR-90
CHARLCOMBE
WOOLLEY LANE
(West,off)
FORMER STABLE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ROSE COTTAGE
GV
II
Revision Number: 2
ST 76 NW
4/249
CHARLCOMBE
WOOLLEY LANE
(west side, off)
Former stable approx 40 metres to south-east of Rose Cottage
II
Former gunpowder works building (probably charcoal-crushing shed); then stable;
now disused. C18, probably 1st half; altered. Rubblestone, corrugated iron
roof. North-east (road side) elevation: 3 storeys, lowered to 2; 3 bays.
Quoins. On left a blocked doorway; to centre a window with doorway above in
former, quoined, window opening; to right a doorway with blocked quoined, window
opening above; ground-floor openings are later insertions, all openings have
wooden lintels. Sloping roof, partly collapsed. Left return: brieze-block
patching and later door on left. Interior: inserted partition wall and evidence
of inserted floors. Rear wall has deep, curving recess which originally
would have been the back of the wheel pit; above it is a blocked brick-arched
opening (former water-entry point). Overgrown and derelict at time of inspection
This building is believed to have been the charcoal-crushing shed to the
Woolley Gunpowder Works which operated from the 1720s to c.1803. It is the only
extant example of this type of structure associated with gunpowder manufacture.
It is listed for historical interest.
B J Buchanan and M T Tucker, "The Manufacture of Gunpowder: a study of the
documentary and physical evidence relating to the Woolley Powder Works near Bath",
Industrial Archaeology Review, V, 3, Autumn 1981, pp 185-202.
Listing NGR: ST7498868787
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