Site of Horn Works at Stone House, High St
Description of this historic site
The site of a horn comb factory at the Stone House in the High Street, Kenilworth. The factory would have been operating during the Imperial period. This information was given in a newspaper article in 1894.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Kenilworth was a centre of the horn comb industry. Mr Heynes in the Coventry Standard for 24:08:1894 mentions a large factory situated by the Stone House. The Stone House still stands (1965) in the High Street.
2 The Stone House still stands, now converted into a Midlands Bank, but no trace of the horn-making factory remains.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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