Listed buildings in Stonehouse - Stroud District Council

The list entry for:-
S081Z8 0462
Shall be amended to:-
SO 8128 0462
SCHEDULE
RYEFORD
Former coal pen near Canal
Cottages
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RYEFORD
j 8 'c2t/oa /100o C 4 Former coal pen near canal
Cottages
Coal pen. 1864, built for the Marling family. Limestone, mostly coursed and dressed work and
some ashlar. Enclosure walls of approx. 6ft high, located between the canal towpath and the
River Frome, have stone copings. Two shutes in the canal-facing wall, which once had timber
boards hinged at the bottom to facilitate unloading of coal by wheelbarrow along planks from
barges to the pen. Corners of walls are curved, to allow cart access from towpath, and
incorporate late Cl9wrought-iron gate. Shipments of coalfrom the StroudwaterCanal opened
in 1779 for the supply of coal and other materials to the textile mills of the Stroud Valley, were
unloaded into this pen. It is the only survivor on this canal, and significant in view of its
relationship to this historically important industrial area, which includes some of the earliest
and most architecturally distinguished structures associated with the growth of the textile
industry from the late seventeenth century in Britain. The pens supplied the key sites at Stanley
Mill (grade I) and Ebley Mill (i*), also owned by the Marling family. They are prominently
located in the Stroud Industrial Heritage Conservation Area. Brick examples of such pens have
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