Description

ROYAL GUNPOWDER FACTORY
TL3700
3/10012 MOD Building H7 at TL 3756 0011
- II

Reel Drying Stove. 1904. English bond yellow brick; hipped zinc-covered roofs with almost flat roof to porch. Rectangular 8-bay plan, originally of one room, with "truck porches" to each end. One storey. 8-bay east and west elevations with red brick segmental arches over now-blocked windows. Mid C20 double doors to ends. The porches, to which tramways originally ran, each contain the remains of a "barrier board" to keep out grit and dust. Blocked round openings indicate the position of entry for steam pipes. Interior not inspected but roof replaced after bomb damage c1940. Associated with the manufacture of cordite, which Waltham
had pioneered and which in the 1890s took over as the main services explosive. This reel drying stove represents an advance on the earlier example, L165 (qv), in that it was designed to extract acetone after it had been used as a solvent in the manufacturing process. (RCHME report, 1993).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26543034

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Oxfordshire (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]
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)