County Index
By Name : By Type
Smaller sites are listed in the alphabetical index
Brecknock. :
Bristol :
Cards. :
Carms. :
Derbys. :
Gloucs. :
Hants. :
Pembs. :
Somer. :
Surrey :
Sussex :
Undisc.
Historically, every county has had its own distinctive style and types of building depending on the needs of its people, economy, underlying geology and raw materials. Although regional differences in architecture have diminished with the age of cheap bulk transport, even today building type can vary widely by region. Here I have listed all of the buildings featured on this site by historical county (pre-1975).
Brecknockshire/Sir Frycheiniog
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Mid Wales Hospital
Large turn-of-the-century psychiatric institution hidden amongst the Brecon Beacons, slowly rotting from the top down after conversion plans fell through in 2008.
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City & County of Bristol
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Cardiganshire/Sir Ceredigion
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Capel Blaencaron
A disused Calvinistic Methodist Chapel on a bleak mountain road in the Welsh highlands above Tregaron, opened in 1875 and closed c.2000. |
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A factory and distribution depot set up by the Milk Marketing Board in 1937 to process milk from local farms.
Closed in 1970, it has stood empty for nearly half a century. |  |
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Welsh Martyrs' Church
A striking modernist church plagued by problems with the flat roof which forced it to close in 2008. |  |
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Carmarthenshire/Sir Gaerfyrddin
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Capel Troedyrhiw
An large Welsh Independent chapel furnished with carved woodwork,
stained glass and cast iron, abandoned as congregations and fortunes declined in the early 21st
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Derbyshire
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Willington Cooling Towers
Five massive hyperboloid cooling towers, the last remnant of two enormous coal-fired power stations
which together could produce 125 MW of electricity |  |
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Gloucestershire
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Whitefield's Tabernacle
An historic nonconformist church established by Methodist pioneers George Whitefield and John Cennick in 1741. |  |
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Hampshire
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Forton Graveyard of Ships
The remains of small a shipbreaking business comprising dozens of derelict vessels decaying slowly into the harbour mud. |  |
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Fraser Gunnery Range
A disused Naval gunnery school, missile range and Admiralty RADAR Research Establishment which closed in 2006. |  |
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Pembrokeshire/Sir Benfro
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Somerset
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Barrow Hospital
A hospital built in the 1930s to be a progressive centre for treating diseases of the mind.
The hospital served for 75 years, closing in 2006. |  |
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Surrey
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Baynards Works
80-acre site comprising the remains of chemical works, battery manufacturing and brickmaking over more than a century. One of Surrey's most toxic and contaminated sites.
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uckland Sand & Silica
Washing and processing plant, source of fine sands for the glass industry, but closed in the 1990s. |  |
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Clock House Brickworks
Clock House Brickworks
Large soft-mud process brickworks established in the 1930s as a factory for ceramic blocks. In 1945 it was acquired by London Brick who switched production to multi-stock bricks. |  |
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Dunley Hill Camp
A WWII Canadian Artillery camp hidden in the woods of Ranmore Common near Dorking |  |
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RAF Dunsfold
Class 'A' Bomber airfield built in 1942 for the Royal Canadian Air Force, later used for aircraft testing and development. |  |
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Ewhurst Brick Works
Remains of a small factory producing stock bricks of Weald Clay until its closure in the 1980s. |  |
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Hollywood Lodge
A Georgian gentleman's residence used as a psychiatric hospital annexe until 2003. |  |
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Horton Hospital Chapel
A psychiatric hospital chapel opened in 1902. The hospital played an important role in the development of music therapy, forensic psychiatry, and attempts to treat and rehabilitate pathological sex-offenders.
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Laporte Earths
A hellish maze of conveyors, silos, calciners, mills and pipes used to produce granular
fuller's earth for the chemical, woollen and pet-litter industries.
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Lingfield Farm Colony
A sprawling hospital-school established in the 19th Century as a mission of mercy to London's poor,
which later became a pioneering centre for the treatment and care of epilepsy in children.
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Milford Hospital
A former tuberculosis sanatorium built by Surrey County Council in the late 1920s.
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Nutbourne Brickworks
A substantial 1930s brickworks comprising dryers, moulding sheds, milling plant, a smithy, canteen and the remains of a narrow gauge railway system. | .JPG) |
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Swallow's Tiles Ltd.
A well-preserved small-scale Victorian factory which produced handmade tiles until 2008. |  |
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Tangley Place
A Victorian mansion used by the Ministry of Agriculture as a field station for animal testing. . |  |
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Tatsfield Receiving Station
Derelict BBC Technical station which monitored domestic and foreign broadcasts and was the first place in Britain
to recieve signals from the Russian satellite Sputnik I. |  |
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West Park Hospital
The last of a cluster of mental hospitals to be built by the London County Council on the Horton Estate near Epsom, a rambling maze of wards and corridors. | .JPG) |
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Weyburn Engineering Works
A large rural factory established in 1913 which made precision components for cars, trucks, aeroplanes and
even
tanks for over 90 years. |  |
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Wonham Mill
An eighteenth century flour mill and miller's house, much extended in 1914. |  |
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Worms Heath Igloo 2 H.A.A. Battery
Anti-aircraft gun site built during the Cold War as part of a short-lived and little-known artillery-based defence against Russian bombers. |
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Sussex
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Abingworth Nurseries
A long-disused mushroom farm hiding an unexpected potpourri manufacturing outfit. A victim of cheap imports and changing tastes.
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Arun Stop Line
WWII defences surrounding the nodal point of Horsham - pillboxes, obstacles, gun emplacements designed to
hinder an invading army.
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Bedham Mission Church
A tiny abandoned church, also doubling as a schoolroom, hidden in the backwoods of the Sussex Weald.
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Beedingwood
A remarkable house built in 1876; it later became part of a pioneering
rehabilitation hospital but closed in 1983. |  |
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Cocking Limeworks
Limeburning at Cocking started before 1830, but the present works was built in 1920s to supply
lime to the local brick industry. |  |
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St Michael's Orphanage Chapel
A redbrick gothic chapel designed by Edward Pugin, St Michael's later served as a Catholic Seminary, a school of Ballet and an Islamic school. |  |
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Steep Park
A rambling Victorian mansion, formerly home to a wealthy artisan and his wife, which fell into
ruin after their deaths at the turn of the 21st century. |  |
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West Hoathly Brickworks
A small brickworks founded in the 19th century, one of the last in England to use the clamp firing method. |
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Undisclosed & Other
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Atmospheric Station 'F'
A small research station built in the 1950s to monitor meteorological phenomena and test scientific instruments
for a local university. |
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Crychydd Woollen Mill
A mid-Victorian woollen mill which ran one of the first public electricity schemes in Wales. |  |
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Lost Gardens
A brief history of the rise and decline of the country house garden. |
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