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© Mr John Chester
IoE Number:
374033
Location:
BOWDEN'S OLD LACE FACTORY, MILL STREET (north side)
CHARD TOWN, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr John Chester
Date Photographed:
26 September 2006
Date listed:
24 March 1950
Date of last amendment:
24 March 1950
Grade
II
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CHARD
ST3308 BODEN STREET
756-1/4/6 (East side)
24/03/50 Bowden's Old Lace Factory
GV II
Lace factory, now works. c1825. Flemish bond brick on
limestone rubble plinth. 3 storeys, 14-window range to front,
3-window range to left return and 4 windows to right return;
circular tie-plates between each window on each floor to front
and back. Projecting loading bay to right in style of archway
(qv) of 1901; stone coping to front gable end over canted bay
with hipped stone roof. High door above plinth and entrance to
right return, all with heavily rusticated quoins and
dressings.
INTERIOR: divided into small commercial lots, but mostly
cast-iron piers to vaulted brick ceilings. The lace or plain
net trade became established after 1820 by manufacturers who
fled from the Luddite resistance they had faced in the
Midlands.
(Aston: Historic Towns in Somerset: 1977-; Buchanan CA:
Industrial Archaeology of Central Southern England: 1980-:
P.123).