BRITISH RAIL ENGINEERING LIMITED SWINDON WORKS NO 19 SHOP, AND NO 20 SHOP (NORTH BAY) OLD N SHOP

BRITISH RAIL ENGINEERING LIMITED SWINDON WORKS, RODBOURNE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1023522
Date first listed:: 18-May-1984
List Entry Name:: BRITISH RAIL ENGINEERING LIMITED SWINDON WORKS NO 19 SHOP, AND NO 20 SHOP (NORTH BAY) OLD N SHOP
Statutory Address:: BRITISH RAIL ENGINEERING LIMITED SWINDON WORKS, RODBOURNE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1023522
Date first listed:: 18-May-1984
List Entry Name:: BRITISH RAIL ENGINEERING LIMITED SWINDON WORKS NO 19 SHOP, AND NO 20 SHOP (NORTH BAY) OLD N SHOP
Statutory Address 1:: BRITISH RAIL ENGINEERING LIMITED SWINDON WORKS, RODBOURNE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: NO 19 SHOP, AND NO 20 SHOP (NORTH BAY) OLD N SHOP, RODBOURNE 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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Location

Statutory Address:: BRITISH RAIL ENGINEERING LIMITED SWINDON WORKS, RODBOURNE ROAD
Statutory Address:: NO 19 SHOP, AND NO 20 SHOP (NORTH BAY) OLD N SHOP, RODBOURNE ROAD

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

District:: Swindon (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Central Swindon North
National Grid Reference:: SU 14290 84905

Details

RODBOURNE ROAD SU 1484 NW SWINDON BREL: Swindon Works 5/154 No 19 Shop, and No 20 Shop (north bay) Old N Shop 18.5.84 GV II

Smiths turning shop, now machine shop, c1842, by D Gooch and I K Brunel. Coursed squared rubble from Box tunnel, corrugated sheet roof. The west facade is of two storeys and bays separated by pilasters, and with horizontal wooden boarding between the windows. The windows mostly have their original glazing mullions and transom below. 2-light with mullions above, each divided into vertical panes and opening with central pivot. Internally, the space is now full height, but evidence of the first floor remains in a partition. The north end of the block has the original wooden roof trusses. The remainder has later steel replacements. Apparently the best preserved of the original buildings opened 2nd January 1843. One of an important group of Victorian industrial buildings at the GWR works.

Listing NGR: SU1429084905

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Legacy System number:: 318816
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hudson, K, Transport History
Large, F , Swindon Retrospect 1855-1930, (1931)
Peck, A , The Great Western at Swindon Works, (1983)
Silto, J , A Swindon History 1840-1901

Legal

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