Office Building to North of General Offices
OFFICE BUILDING TO NORTH OF GENERAL OFFICES, RODBOURNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023529
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Office Building to North of General Offices
- Statutory Address:
- OFFICE BUILDING TO NORTH OF GENERAL OFFICES, RODBOURNE ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023529
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Office Building to North of General Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- OFFICE BUILDING TO NORTH OF GENERAL OFFICES, RODBOURNE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OFFICE BUILDING TO NORTH OF GENERAL OFFICES, 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 14386 85037
Details
The following buildings shall be added list.
SWINDON RODBOURNE ROAD SU 18 NW BREL: Swindon Works 1/165 Office building to north of General Offices GV II
Workshop and stores with fitters room and engine house, now offices. 1841 by Brunel and Gooch for The Great Western Railway Company; altered c1871, 1913-16, 1929 and c1950s. Box rubblestone brought to course; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys; 17 bays with fitters room and engine house at South end. West elevation: plinth; giant piers define 14 left-hand bays which have 19508 windows, on ground floor these being small-pane metal windows with segmental brick arches, on 1st floor paired 4-pane sashes below stone lintels; originally there were 4-pane windows to ground floor and 2-pane windows above with weatherboarding between (Peck, plate 26, p31). Former round-arched doorway in bay 1 now a window; door inserted in bay 2; to bay 8, double door with segmental brick arch. The 3 right-hand bays altered c1929, having segmental brick -arched door and small-pane sash windows. East elevation: mostly concealed, but piers survive framing internal openings, with roll-moulded arrises. Interior: jack-arched fire-proof ceiling to former engine room. At least 14 of the original queen-post roof trusses survive.
Of interest as part of the original Great Western Railway works and one of an important group of Victorian Industrial buildings at the works. A. Peck, The Great Western at Swindon Works (1983)
Listing NGR: SU1438685037
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318838
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Peck, A, The Great Western at Swindon Works, (1983)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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