Listed Building: Overstone Road No.76/Dunster Street No.1, Former Curriers Works (1390676)

Former curriers works, c.1878. Red brick with slate roof, hipped to corner, and with coped end gables. Stacks to the Dunster Street gable ends. 3 storeys with 2 storey extension to Dunster Street end. V plan. Iron framed windows to ground and first floors except wooden sashes to canted end and part of Overstone Road front. Very unusual wooden-framed combination of windows with glazing bars over louvred panels to top floor. Dunster Street front has a 10-window range to first floor, then 2 windows on the canted corner and 5 windows and far left taking-in door to Overstone Road. The top floor continuous combination windows are arranged 5:1:3 along the 3 fronts. Entrance doors to canted corner and to right of Dunster Street front. Extension to right of this front may be a purpose-built engine house (the 1899 Goad plan shows it containing a gas engine). Interior yard also has fully covered ventilation panels to top floor. INTERIOR. Wide timber ceiling beams supporting joists. Queen strut roof trusses. The louvre opening mechanism survives in part. House/offices. Rendered and colourwashed brick. Slate roof with coped gable. 2 storeys. 3-window range at first floor of C20 windows in original openings. Ground floor has 2 windows under fascia and cornice and door within doorcase with brackets and cornice. Carriage entrance to right. HISTORY. William Collier is listed as a currier here in 1878/79 and the 1883-84 OS map shows all the ranges. In the 1890’s Goulding and Co. were occupying the premises and in the early C20 the building was a leather warehouse. It has been the present bedding and upholstery factory since the early 1950’s. The form of ventilation for the top floor is characteristic of leather storage and drying floors before the 1890’s but seldom survives.

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Oct 30 2023 2:12PM