Latitude: 52.3847 / 52°23'5"N
Longitude: -2.2456 / 2°14'44"W
OS Eastings: 383382
OS Northings: 276328
OS Grid: SO833763
Mapcode National: GBR 1CS.H2N
Mapcode Global: VH91V.1B66
Plus Code: 9C4V9QM3+VQ
Entry Name: Stour Vale Mills (Woodward Grosvenor and Company Ltd) : Front Range
Listing Date: 2 February 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1244819
English Heritage Legacy ID: 472845
ID on this website: 101244819
Location: Kidderminster, Wyre Forest, Worcestershire, DY10
County: Worcestershire
District: Wyre Forest
Civil Parish: Kidderminster
Built-Up Area: Kidderminster
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Kidderminster East
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Mill building
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Stour Vale Mills (Woodward Grosvenor and Company Ltd) : Front Range
II
Carpet factory. 1856, extended later C19; by J G Bland for the Stour Vale Mill Company. Red brick with yellow/white Stourbridge brick dressings. Welsh slate and corrugated sheet clad roofs with pedimental gable ends.
PLAN: long range containing offices and warehousing. Adjoining at the rear (south-east), and not included, the weaving sheds.
EXTERIOR: two storeys. North west front elevation 9:3:9 bays with two and seven-bay extensions on the left (north-east) end. Centre three bays breaks forward with pediment. Rusticated white brick quoins, bond and entablature, the centre three bay's with rustication around ground floor windows and with keyed oculus in pediment. Round-headed windows with hoodmoulds and multipane cast-iron frames (first floor altered), centre with keystones, the ground floor centre originally a doorway. Right-hand (north-east) designed in similar style.
INTERIOR: altered by conversion to C20 office accommodation.
NOTE: built by the Stour Vale Mills Company in 1856 as a venture to enable Kidderrninster carpet manufacturers to rent space and power for powerloom weaving without having to obtain new premises and looms. The weaving sheds behind were divided into nine separate compartments and there were separate entrances at the front. Many of the large carpet makers such as James Morton and Sons and William Green began here before building factories of their own.
SOURCE: A D Goff, The Development of the Carpet Works of Kidderminster 1735-1939; dissertation, University of Birmingham (Ironbridge Institute).
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