MEM25143 - Exe Valley Wagon Works, Bridgetown (Building)

SS 92288 33202. Exe Valley Wagon Works. A wagon and machinery works of Charles Philips established in the 1850s. The business was transferred to Cowbridge in 1909. The buildings are very little altered externally. [1] Two buildings are shown on the 25 inch 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map, at SS 9229 3320 and SS 9227 3320. The site is labelled "Smithy". [2] The buildings are again shown on the 2022 MasterMap data. [3] A photograph provided by the Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society taken in 2018 shows the building to the southeast fronting the road most clearly. It is a single storeyed structure built of stone rubble, with some use of brick, and has a slate roof. The building to the northwest (rear of the site) is two storeyed, of rubble stone and with a tiled roof. It has a wooden lean to at the rear. [4]