The Nabisco Shredded Wheat Factory
THE NABISCO SHREDDED WHEAT FACTORY, BRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101084
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Nabisco Shredded Wheat Factory
- Statutory Address:
- THE NABISCO SHREDDED WHEAT FACTORY, BRIDGE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101084
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Nabisco Shredded Wheat Factory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE NABISCO SHREDDED WHEAT FACTORY, BRIDGE 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:
- THE NABISCO SHREDDED WHEAT FACTORY, BRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL2414812975
Details
968/1/28
24-OCT-02
BRIDGE ROAD
THE NABISCO SHREDDED WHEAT FACTORY
II
1925. Architect Louis de Soissons. Two concrete ranges, at right angles with links. Southern range consists of giant range of cylindrical concrete drums 15 bays long with flat oversailing capping with railings right over the whole top. Behind this is a plain attic storey with 28 plain windows with plain capping over. On one end elevation is a 3 bay projecting tower rising just above the main roof level.
At the west end of the range is a 2 bay wing with large windows, the southern bay of 3 storeys and the northern of 4. Flatroofs. Adjacent is a 7 bay, 4 storey block, with large windows divided by narrow piers and small scale structural divisions between the storeys, making it almost wholly glass. Flat oversailing capping at roof level.
Listing NGR: TL2414812975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158251
- 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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