Building record MLI98683 - Wheelwright's workshop and tyre oven at 45 Foundry Street, Horncastle
Summary
Wheelwright's workshop and tyre oven dated to the 19th century at 45 Foundry Street, Horncastle
Type and Period (8)
- CARPENTERS WORKSHOP (Post Medieval to Mid 20th Century - 1845 AD? to 1948 AD)
- BLACKSMITHS WORKSHOP (Post Medieval to Mid 20th Century - 1845 AD? to 1948 AD)
- WHEELWRIGHTS WORKSHOP (Post Medieval to Mid 20th Century - 1845 AD? to 1948 AD)
- CART SHED (Post Medieval to Mid 20th Century - 1845 AD? to 1948 AD)
- OUTBUILDING (Mid 20th Century to 21st Century - 1948 AD to 2050 AD)
- SAW PIT (Post Medieval to Mid 20th Century - 1845 AD? to 1948 AD)
- WELL (Post Medieval to Mid 20th Century - 1845 AD? to 1948 AD)
- OVEN (Post Medieval to Mid 20th Century - 1895 AD? to 1948 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
Full Description
A wheelwright's shop and tyre oven dating to the mid or late 19th century with blacksmith's and carpenter's workshops and cartshed. All structures are single storey and built of brick, the workshops and cartshed have pantiled roofs. Matthew Scaman, a wheelwright, and his family were living in Foundry Street in 1851. It seems probable that the wheelwright's business was a newly established concern in the mid 1840s. Matthew Scaman's son, also Matthew, continued the business, selling it in 1925 to Charles Twell. Mr Twell retired in 1948 and the business closed. On the gable end of the workshops facing the street is a sign painted directly onto the brickwork in black lettering on a white background, with the name C TWELL and beneath that the word WHEELWRIGHT. The carpenter's and blacksmith's workshops and the cartshed are present on the Ordnance Survey map of 1889, but the tyre oven is not shown until 1906, suggesting improvements had been made in the manufacturing process in the late 19th century. The tyre oven allowed two iron tyres to be heated at the same time, in a more controlled manner than on a traditional open hearth in the yard, before being fixed to wooden wheels, thereby introducing greater efficiency and increasing productivity. There are some surviving fixed tools in the workshops (2012). The cartshed has been converted for domestic use. There is also said to have been a sawpit between the smithy and cartshed, since filled in. The tyre oven stands in the south-west corner of the yard opposite the workshops and cartshed on the north side of the yard. The tyre oven is a brick structure with a central, tapering, square-sectioned chimney. The flat metal wheel-clamp, used for fitting the tyres to the cart wheels, has been removed from the yard, but there is a metal-plate covered well, the water from which was used to cool and shrink the tyres onto the wheel. For the full description of this listed building please refer to the National Heritage List for England. {1}{2}
Sources/Archives (2)
- <1> SLI13386 Website: Historic England (formerly English Heritage). 2011->. The National Heritage List for England. http://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/. 1410080.
- <2> SLI14165 Article in Serial: C.J. Lester and K. Redmore. 2010. 'A Wheelwright's Tyre Oven at Horncastle' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. pp. 39-40.
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred TF 26268 69435 (35m by 21m) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HORNCASTLE, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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