Goods Office of Former Wisbech and Upwell Tramway
GOODS OFFICE OF FORMER WISBECH AND UPWELL TRAMWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077680
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Goods Office of Former Wisbech and Upwell Tramway
- Statutory Address:
- GOODS OFFICE OF FORMER WISBECH AND UPWELL TRAMWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077680
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Goods Office of Former Wisbech and Upwell Tramway
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOODS OFFICE OF FORMER WISBECH AND UPWELL TRAMWAY
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- GOODS OFFICE OF FORMER WISBECH AND UPWELL TRAMWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Outwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TF5131303662
Details
TF 50 SW
9/81
Goods Office of former Wisbech and Upwell Tramway
II
Tramway goods office. Circa 1883. Red brick in Flemish bond slate hipped roof
with deep eaves.
Small rectangular plan, probably single cell, building with entrance in the south
end from the road.
Single storey. No windows on north end but central doorway with segmental arch and C19 4-panel door. Two segmental arch window openings on west side with stone cill and 16-pane metal frame windows. The north end and east side are blind.
Interior not inspected.
Note: The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway, authorised in 1882 and built by the Great Eastern Railway was the last section to survive of a larger system. It provided a rail link between Wisbech and the Outwell-Upwell area. This section of 7 3/4 miles runs along the Wisbech to Outwell Canal. The Tramway has been described as a "cross between the railway proper and ordinary Tram" with wagons and small screened-in locomotives, running across and alongside roads and canals. The coaches were provided with gangways and end steps because the stations did not have platforms; but the main purpose of the line was agricultural. The line was closed to passengers in 1929 and closed altogether in 1966.
Reverend W Awdry, the author of 'Toby the Tram Engine' was for a time the vicar of Emneth, a parish through which the tramway ran.
This goods office at the Outwell Village Depot is the last survivor of a series of offices on the tramway.
Sources: C Hawkins and G Reeve, The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway (Wild Swan Publications). D I Gordon, A Regional History of The Railways of Great Britain, The Eastern Counties, Vol V, page 224.
Listing NGR: TF5131303662
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221867
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hawkins, C, Reeve, G, The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway, ()
Gordon, D I, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain in Eastern Counties, Vol. 5, (), 224
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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