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Latitude: 51.3559 / 51°21'21"N
Longitude: -2.3441 / 2°20'38"W
OS Eastings: 376137
OS Northings: 161922
OS Grid: ST761619
Mapcode National: GBR 0QQ.VKN
Mapcode Global: VH96T.B54X
Plus Code: 9C3V9M44+89
Entry Name: Chimney to West of De Montalt Works
Listing Date: 5 August 2004
Last Amended: 15 October 2010
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1395201
English Heritage Legacy ID: 510615
ID on this website: 101395201
Location: Combe Down, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA2
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bath
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Chimney
SUMMER LANE, Combe Down
656-1/71/2004
Chimney to west of De Montalt Works
05/08/75
GV II
Boiler stack. Mid C19.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar.
PLAN: Lofty tapered shaft, approx 2.8m wide at base, with ovolo bed-mould capping below short (approx 1.2m) vertical shaft to further ovolo mould cornice.
EXTERIOR: Small arched opening to base on east side, facing towards main works (qv), otherwise shaft completely plain, with moulding near the top. It was connected to boiler by stone culvert following slope up from works approx 80m to east, and was built at distance from works, when converted from water power to steam. Condition poor at time of inspection (2002).
HISTORY: The precise circumstances of the building of this tall chimney are not known. Steam power was involved in the manufacture of paper, in reducing rags to fibre, and steam power was mentioned in an 1841 sales particulars drawn up for the site. A view of the works from the 1850s depicted the chimney.
SOURCE: Peter Addison, `Around Combe Down¿ (1998), 85-94.
Listing NGR: ST7613761922
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