Description

HALLATON

265/0/10005 EASTGATE
25-OCT-05 Hallaton
18
The Old Tannery including rear wing, t
annery loft and warehouse

II
House with attached outbuilding range including former tannery loft. House has C17 origins with early C19 alterations and outbuildings are early/mid C19. House is partly coursed squared rubblestone with red brick to first floor, rest of red brick but with weatherboarded first floor to tannery loft. Slate roofs. End stacks to house and ridge and end stacks to outbuilding wing. All of 2 storeys. U plan with house facing lane then a long wing projecting to rear from the right hand end of the house again along the lane side. The loft and further warehouse outbuilding extend out from the wing to form the U plan. House has a 2-window front of unhorned sash windows, 3/6 over 6/6, and a central door. The right hand gable end has a small window and shows the original cottage stone gable end and where the first floor has been raised in the early C19. The left gable end is rendered and whitewashed and has a 2-light casement. The rear of the house has an 8/8 sash over a part-glazed fdoor and a multi-paned window. The wing has similar multi-paned windows on both floors and a stable type door. The loft is open on the ground floor and the first floor front gable is now entirely C20 glazing, installed for its present use as a sculptor's studio. The 2-storey warehouse, also gable facing, is to the left of this and has a 2-light casement over garage doors. The wing has various windows facing the lane and the rear facing an adjoining garden is blank but for the 3 louvred openings of the loft. These have the wide plank shuttering which are now boarded behind but which were the means of ventilation for the tannery loft.
INTERIOR. The house has boxed bridging beams to the ground floor and the sitting room a fireplace surround with overmantel which is a simplified miniature version of those at Hallation Hall nearby (q.v.). An early C19 fireplace and cupboards in the other ground floor room. Straight-flight stairs. 4-panel doors.
The outbuilding range has a very unusual workshop with fireplace. The ceiling is of cast-iron beams supporting a floor of ceramic pierced bricks like those used in maltings. This ceiling is the floor for the room above and it is likekly that this area was used for part of the tanning process possibly for curing, fuming or drying. The adjoining large tannery loft has, in addition to the louvred openings visible from the outside, the vertical operating posts and brackets still remaining on the inside.

This is a very rare and unusual survival of a village-scale tannery. The survival of the whole complex is very significant. The property is said to have been described in early C20 deeds as a fellmongers. White Directory of 1846 lists 2 fellmongers with the same surname (Almond) in Hallation but gives no address. A fellmonger prepared hides or fleeces and this complex appears to retain 2 preparing areas as well as the warehouse and fellmonger's house. Two steeps survive sunk in the garden.

Reasons for Listing

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26671316

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)