Description

KEYNSHAM

ST6568 AVON MILL LANE
739-1/4/5 (East side)
20/08/76 Brass Mill Cottages

GV II

Cottage row and workshops, now disused. Early C19 with mid C20
alterations. Squared and coursed rubble with brass slag
dressings, brick infilling, some concrete lintels and gabled
pantile roof with catslide to rear.
PLAN: long 2-storey; 8-window range with garages to south and
2 cottages to north set parallel to the road.
EXTERIOR: east courtyard facade with segmental-headed door
openings and inserted mid C20 flat-headed garage openings to
ground-floor; paired casements to upper floor. Pre-cast copper
slag blocks form jambs to openings, and quoins. 3 part-glazed
garage doors to left-hand, plank doors to right-hand.
INTERIORS: most partition walls have disappeared and the
interiors have been gutted.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the cottages are said originally to have been
the smith's shop, two warehouses, a stable and four tenements
for the brass mill.
Forms a group with the Old Brass Mill (qv) and Avon House
(qv).
(White E: Keynsham and Saltford: Keynsham: 1990-: 27).

Listing NGR: ST6582068842

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664398

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