LOCKWOODS BUILDERS YARD, INCLUDING ATTACHED GATES, GATEPIERS, WALL AND POST BOX

LOCKWOODS BUILDERS YARD, INCLUDING ATTACHED GATES, GATEPIERS, WALL AND POST BOX, ESSEX ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088077
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-2002
List Entry Name:: LOCKWOODS BUILDERS YARD, INCLUDING ATTACHED GATES, GATEPIERS, WALL AND POST BOX
Statutory Address:: LOCKWOODS BUILDERS YARD, INCLUDING ATTACHED GATES, GATEPIERS, WALL AND POST BOX, ESSEX ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088077
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-2002
List Entry Name:: LOCKWOODS BUILDERS YARD, INCLUDING ATTACHED GATES, GATEPIERS, WALL AND POST BOX
Statutory Address 1:: LOCKWOODS BUILDERS YARD, INCLUDING ATTACHED GATES, GATEPIERS, WALL AND POST BOX, ESSEX ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: LOCKWOODS BUILDERS YARD, INCLUDING ATTACHED GATES, GATEPIERS, WALL AND POST BOX, THE GROVE

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:: LOCKWOODS BUILDERS YARD, INCLUDING ATTACHED GATES, GATEPIERS, WALL AND POST BOX, ESSEX ROAD
Statutory Address:: LOCKWOODS BUILDERS YARD, INCLUDING ATTACHED GATES, GATEPIERS, WALL AND POST BOX, THE GROVE

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

County:: Kent
District:: Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:: Westgate-on-Sea
National Grid Reference:: TR 32678 69977

Details

878/0/10031 THE GROVE 06-AUG-02 Westgate on Sea Lockwoods Builders Yard, including att ached gates, gatepiers, wall and post box ESSEX ROAD Westgate on Sea Lockwoods builders Yard, including att ached gates, gatepiers, wall and post box

II

Purpose-built builders yard. Built c1872 (which is when the firm of A G Lockwood and Co was founded) or soon afterwards, comprising a range of offices and attached individual workshops for building trades including carpenters, joiners, plumbers and blacksmiths. Built mainly of stock brick with some weatherboarding and slate roofs. One storey with irregular fenestration. L-shaped range leading on to central courtyard. EXTERIOR: The Grove elevation comprises a range of office buildings, attached gates and a section of attached wall. Building to the left is one storeyed, clad in weatherboarding on burr brick plinth, gabled with slate roof with sash window with glazing bars to upper part only and doorcase with rectangular fanlight. Attached to the right are office buildings of one storey burr brick with stock brick and red brick dressings, dogtooth cornice and two chimneystacks. The front elevation has three windows with cambered heads and a further one to the return, three of which have glazing bars to the upper parts, the left hand one wider with central opening light. Left side arched doorcase with plank door and right side has two cambered headed doors with four-panelled doors. Attached to the weatherboarded building are wooden plank gates with cart and pedestrian entrances, wooden gatepiers and a section of burr brick wall about six feet high with stepped curved brick parapet, terminating in a brick pier with stone finial and incorporating a Victorian post box to left hand side. The Essex Road elevation is composed mainly of three workshops all linked and is of one storey and semi-basement in stock brick in Sussex bond but with different rooflines and features. The left part has an asbestos tiled roof, brick chimneystack, four cambered headed sashes and three cambered loading doors. The central part has a slate roof, brick chimneystack and two loading doors. The right side section has a slate roof with ridge tiles, a double loading door to the left, a central brick chimneystack, four wooden ventilation louvres at the top and six round-headed arches at the base, some retaining cast iron covers. The courtyard elevation is of two stoerys and has a series of triple windows, two external wooden staircases and the eastern section has three pyramidal glazed skylights to the projecting ground floor. INTERIOR: Recent photographs show the office retains tongued and grooved boarded panelling, built-in oak ledger with brass railing, a marble fireplace with semi-circular shaped cast iron firegrate and a fireplace with wooden bolection moulding and blue tiles. The workshops are thought to contain original work benches and other fittings. HISTORY: This company built a large part of the late C19 resort of Westgate-on- Sea and at the height of the building boom in the 1880s and 1890s they were a major employer of building workers. The office fittings reflect the reception of important clients and the workshop functions are reflected in the external features. Purpose-built builders yards which have not undergone major alteration are very rare.

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Legacy System number:: 489663
Legacy System:: LBS

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