Listed buildings in Stonehouse - Stroud District Council

The following building shalt be added to the list:
SCHEDULE
SO 8128 0462 STONEHOUSE RYEFORD
Former coat pen near Canal
Cottages
Coal pen. 1864, built for the Marley family. Limestone, tly coursed and dressed Irk and some
ashlar. Enclosure walls of approx. 6ft high, located be een the canal towpath an e River Frome,
a have stone copings. Two shutes in the canal-faci gwall, which once had timber,ards hinged at the
bottom to facilitate unloading of coal by wheebarrow along planks from bar es to the pen. Corners
of walls are curved, to allow cart access from towpath, and incorporate 1aw Cl 9 wrought-iron gate.
Shipments of coal from the Stroudwate'r Canel, opened in 1779 for^e supply of coal and other
materials to the textile mills of the Stroud Valley, were unloaded in this pen. It is the only survivor
on this canal, and significant in vyew of its relationship to this hi orically important industrial area,
which includes some of the earliestand mostarchitecturally dj inguishedstructures associated with
the growth of the textile indtstry from the late seventeen century in Britain. The pens supplied the
key sites at Stanley MiJl'(grade I) and Ebley Mill (11*) so owned by the Marley family. They are
prominently located,in'the Stroud industrial Herita onservation Area. Brick examples of such pens
have survived in the West Midlands, althoug hey are all brick built, lacking the distinctive
appearance of>these ashlar walls and asso ted gates, and do not have the direct historical
associations,ind context of this example.
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\@ Signed by authority of the
Secretary of State
PAUL JOHNSON
Dated: 7/t Department for Culture, Media
and Sport