Building record MWX4383 - Bottom Coombe saw mills

Stone saw mills, marked on the second edition OS map. Large covered building, steel framed with corrugated asbestos and iron walls and roof. Represents a (1931?) enlargement and rebuilding of the original partly open work yard. A photograph taken in April 1930 shows an overhead traveller crane serving the open yard, with railway trucks on a siding. In 1999 this was the primary stone works, to which quarried blocks were brought from the quarries to be sawn on two faces only.

Stone saw mills, marked on the second edition OS map. (1) Large covered building, steel framed with corrugated asbestos and iron walls and roof. Represents a (1931?) enlargement and rebuilding of the original partly open work yard (2-3). A photograph taken in April 1930 shows an overhead traveller crane serving the open yard, with railway trucks on a siding. (4) In 1999 this was the primary stone works, to which quarried blocks were brought from the quarries to be sawn on two faces only. Main diamond-tipped saws included one 3.5m diameter and two 3m diameter circular saws, and two multi-bladed frame saw units. Sawn stone was taken by lorry to the secondary works immediately N. (5)

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1901, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet LVIII.15 (Map). SDO10268.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1929, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, sheet LVIII.15 (Map). SDO10269.

<4> Stanier, P, 1995, Quarries of England & Wales, p79 BGS Photograph A4997 (Monograph). SDO10275.

<5> AC Archaeology, 2002, The Isle of Portland Review of Mineral Planning Permissions Stage 1: archaeological baseline study for Hanson Bath & Portland Stone, document no. 4299/1/4. (Unpublished document). SDO10260.

Record last edited

Oct 4 2007 10:38AM