Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643797

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO75NW 84 719 577

NO75NW 84.01 NO 719 577 trial excavation

(Location cited as NO 717 577 to NO 721 577). Chapel Works, founded 1795 as a linen and rope works. A large complex on a rectangular site. The front building is a single-storey, 8- by 17-bay coursed-rubble block, with prominent quoins and an imposing arched central entrance, dated 1795. At the rear are buildings of various dates, possibly the oldest being a two-storey, eleven-bay building with a bellcote. Next to that is a three-storey and attic, twelve-bay building with a water-tower at one end and a chimney stump at the other. There is also a seventy-bay, single-storeuy ropewalk. Now in multiple occupation, partly as a bonded warehouse.

J R Hume 1977.