Walter Parsons Corn Stores

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

The following building shall be added to the list:-

READING FORBURY ROAD SU 7173 NE (South side)

1/10002 No. 10 Walter Parsons Corn Stores - II Corn merchant's warehouse. Built in 1890 for Walter Parsons, corn merchants. Purple brick with yellow brick and ashlar dressings; slate roof with parapeted gable to front.

PLAN: Rectangular plan with carriageway through left side and office on right with front entrance and loading bay behind; and with three storage floors above.

EXTERIOR: 4 storey 2-bay gabled north front. The ashlar ground floor has panelled pilasters and segmental arches to office front on right, with panelled and glazed door and 3-light window with overlights above and carriageway on left with plank double doors. Storeys above with moulded brick stringcourses at floor and cill levels and the two bays divided by brick pilasters corbelled at top with ball finials flanking the gable [one ball missing]. Wide 4-light mullion-transom windows with segmental arches. Plain red brick rear elevation with sash windows. INTERIOR: The floors are supported on timber joists with iron beams and iron columns. Collar truss roof with struts. The office has glazed and boarded screen to carriageway. Simple ladder stairs in corner to each floor. Hoist hatch over carriageway and through floors above. Machinery includes winch mechanism on first floor, threshing machine on second floor and hoppers on third floor.

Listing NGR: SU7167473704

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1091 IOE Records taken by Pamela Jackson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Ms Pamela Jackson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project