FORMER GNER ENGINE SHED

FORMER GNER ENGINE SHED, HAUGHTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392356
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-2008
List Entry Name:: FORMER GNER ENGINE SHED
Statutory Address:: FORMER GNER ENGINE SHED, HAUGHTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392356
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-2008
List Entry Name:: FORMER GNER ENGINE SHED
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER GNER ENGINE SHED, HAUGHTON ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER GNER ENGINE SHED, HAUGHTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 29670 15273

Reasons for Designation

* It is an early example of this type of building for a railway company * It is a rare surviving example of a first generation railway engine shed * It is highly significant for the evolution of early railway building design * Although it has suffered some alteration in terms of blocked openings and roof coverings it is free from accretions and retains its basic form

Details

907/0/10027 HAUGHTON ROAD 09-JAN-08 Former GNER Engine Shed

II Engine Shed 1840/41 possibly by J T Andrews of York for the Great North of England Railway.

MATERIALS: red brick with stone dressings and corrugated asbestos roofing; timber ventilator.

PLAN: a single storey rectangular building comprising 2 bays into which engines entered from the south.

EXTERIOR: South Elevation: 2-bays with 2 large round headed engine openings with stone imposts, one partially blocked and one covered with boarded sliding doors. The roof is hipped with oversailing eaves and a raised louvered ventilator along the apex. North Elevation: 2 large round headed engine openings with stone imposts, one blocked and one with boarded doors. East and West Elevations: 11 original openings with brick segmental arches within shallow segmental-headed panels separated by narrow brick pilasters; these openings have had their lower parts in filled and later windows inserted, many of which are themselves, now blocked and boarded over. Six inserted windows in the east elevation retain their window frames. There is a stone plinth and stone sill band.

INTERIOR: single, large space with a Queen Post Roof and the remains of a fireplace, possibly a small forge, at the north end.

SOURCES: Mike Griffiths Associates LTD Land at Haughton Road, Haughton Road, Darlington Desk-Based Assessment July 2007

HISTORY: This is a railway engine shed built by the Great North of England Railway Company said by the applicant to date from 1841. The Tithe map of 1847 confirms the building in this position. The shed is located on the line from Darlington to York, which opened in January 1841 for goods and for passengers on 30 March 1841. The first trains to run on this line used locomotives borrowed or purchased from the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The architect is uncertain but it is thought to be George Townsend Andrews of York, architect of the first York Station. While this cannot be confirmed the balance of evidence supports this view as Andrews is confirmed as a prolific designer of very many railway buildings in the area including stations, goods stations and engine sheds during this period including work for the Great North of England Railway. Very many of these early railway buildings are listed in Grades II and some in Grade II*.

This building is designated in grade II for the followng principal reasons:

* It is an early example of this type of building for a railway company * It is a rare example of an early railway engine shed * It is highly significant for the evolution of railway building design * Although it has suffered some alteration in terms of blocked openings and roof coverings it is free from accretions and retains its basic form

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 504511
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.