Railway Engine Sheds and Workshops at National Grid Reference 196 979
RAILWAY ENGINE SHEDS AND WORKSHOPS AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE 196 979, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126895
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Engine Sheds and Workshops at National Grid Reference 196 979
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY ENGINE SHEDS AND WORKSHOPS AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE 196 979, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126895
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Engine Sheds and Workshops at National Grid Reference 196 979
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY ENGINE SHEDS AND WORKSHOPS AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE 196 979, STATION ROAD
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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:
- RAILWAY ENGINE SHEDS AND WORKSHOPS AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE 196 979, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL1956997955
Details
The following buildings shall be added to the list:-
PETERBOROUGH STATION ROAD
TL 19 NE
0/10001 Railway engine sheds and
workshops at NGR 196 979
GV II
Railway engine sheds and workshops. 1848 for the Great Eastern
and Midland Railway Companies. Stock brick with some stone
dressings. Slate roof with coped gable ends. Brick axial and
lateral stacks with stone cornices. Plan: Pair of large parallel
adjoining engine sheds with workshop range across the west end.
Exterior: 1 storey. The north and south sides of the engine sheds
each have eleven bays of double recessed round-arch windows, some
retaining cast-iron window frames with glazing bars, some
blocked; centre bay has narrow blind round arch in lateral stack,
the south stack truncated; 2 large entrances in east end gables
with steel girder lintels. The workshop range at west end has 9-
bay west front with large segmentally arched windows, mostly
blocked, and the centre with later porch. The workshop and south
engine shed have raised ridge ventilators with louvred sides, the
workshop range with pair of stacks at centre. Interior: timber
roof trusses, large water tank with cast-iron base. 6 tracks in
place and pits survive under concrete floor.
Note: The sheds were used jointly by the Great Eastern and
Midland Railway Companies until 1872 when the Great Eastern took
over the whole shed. Remained in railway use until the 1950s.
Listing NGR: TL1956997955
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49783
- 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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