Monument record MDO20411 - Cox and Co Sail Cloth Works, Yarn Barton, North Street, Beaminster

Long, early-19th century 2-storey range of 13 bays, of stone with a slate roof. The building has large window openings to both storeys with wooden lintels. There is a door with a loading-door above in the first bay at the west end and a large opening from ground to eaves in bays 3 - 4. The range is an eastward extension of a taller 2-storey rubble building, possibly of late-18th century date, with a stripped roof, itself probably a rear extension of a 2-storeyed rubble stone building with north-south ridge, also stripped. The west elevation has a wide doorway to the street with a wide window above. Timber framing is visible on the north gable end where the building was probably part of a range extending further northwards originally. The eastern side of the roof of the 13-bay range is pantiled. The building was demolished and replaced by new housing in July 1998. <6>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1889, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet XXIX.2 (Map). SDO10610.

<2> Dorset Museum Photographic Collection, P555 (Photograph). SDO18668.

Yarn Barton Factory (Nets And Sailcloth), 1903

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/063 South West Textile Mills Project (Unpublished document). SDO17323.

<4> Stanier, Peter, 1989, Dorset's Industrial Heritage, 39 (Monograph). SWX1300.

<5> Gosling, G, 1993, Beaminster, 5 (Monograph). SDO18793.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1305411 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 29 2024 12:28PM