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Listed buildings in Stonehouse - Stroud District Council

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SO 8004 NE STONEHOUSE DOWNTON ROAD<br />

(east side)<br />

9/168 Ma<strong>in</strong> build<strong>in</strong>g at Upper Mills<br />

II~~~~~<br />

Former mill build<strong>in</strong>g, now offices. 1875 for R.S. Davies, cloth<br />

manufacturer. Red brick; stone dress<strong>in</strong>gs; Welsh slate roof.<br />

Three-storey with attic; 4-storey tower on west side. West front:<br />

10-w<strong>in</strong>dow segmental arched casement fenestration with stone sills<br />

<strong>in</strong>terrupted by off-centre tower with attached 2-storey lean-to<br />

<strong>in</strong>corporated to left. Paired sashes to third floor of tower with *<br />

po<strong>in</strong>ted arched panel over bordered by stone mould<strong>in</strong>g, mould<strong>in</strong>g<br />

be<strong>in</strong>g taken up to become po<strong>in</strong>ted hoodmould above circular w<strong>in</strong>dow on<br />

fourth floor Sprocketed and hipped tower roof with brick eaves<br />

decoration, lucarnes and ironwork crest<strong>in</strong>g. Pla<strong>in</strong> stone band<strong>in</strong>g to<br />

ma<strong>in</strong> block; slop<strong>in</strong>g attic w<strong>in</strong>dows <strong>in</strong> mansard roof. Some C20<br />

alterations to ground floor. Rear: 10-w<strong>in</strong>dow fenestration as to<br />

front. Ends: coped gables; s<strong>in</strong>gle w<strong>in</strong>dow casement fenestration.<br />

Interior not <strong>in</strong>spected.<br />

(N.M. Herbert, '<strong>Stonehouse</strong>' <strong>in</strong> V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 267-289;<br />

and J. Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, 1967)<br />

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