Erecting Shop and Assembly Shops, Coalbrookdale Ironworks
ERECTING SHOP AND ASSEMBLY SHOPS, COALBROOKDALE IRONWORKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031523
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Erecting Shop and Assembly Shops, Coalbrookdale Ironworks
- Statutory Address:
- ERECTING SHOP AND ASSEMBLY SHOPS, COALBROOKDALE IRONWORKS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031523
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Erecting Shop and Assembly Shops, Coalbrookdale Ironworks
- Statutory Address 1:
- ERECTING SHOP AND ASSEMBLY SHOPS, COALBROOKDALE IRONWORKS
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:
- ERECTING SHOP AND ASSEMBLY SHOPS, COALBROOKDALE IRONWORKS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- The Gorge
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 66794 04627
Details
SJ6604 THE GORGE COALBROOKDALE 1126/9/10029 Erecting shop and Assembly shops Coalbrookdale Ironworks
GV II
Erecting shop. 1879, extended 1883-6. Red brick with white brick dressings. Clay plain tile hipped roof with white and red brick eaves cornice. PLAN: Long rectangular 16-bay building; 11-bay original range with 5 bays added in 1883-6. Circa 1930 assembly shops on west side not of special interest.
EXTERIOR: East front has 16 large round-headed windows with white brick rebates and continuous white brick cill band, multi-pane cast-iron windows with radiating glazing bars to the top panes. Similar window with large doorway to right with sliding door on north end. Lower single storey flat-roof compressor house at south end. INTERIOR: One large space open to the roof with timber tie-beam and collar trusses with steel struts, ties and braces. West wall has 14 blocked arches and high-level knuckle joints which supported jib cranes and bearing boxes for cable drive. Gantry and its rails on the walls. Railway line on floor. This erecting shop was built in 1879 and replaced small engineering shops on the nearby Upper Works.
Listing NGR: SJ6679404627
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468960
- 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.
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