Great Northern Shed
GREAT NORTHERN SHED, SOUTH PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138780
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Great Northern Shed
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT NORTHERN SHED, SOUTH PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138780
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Great Northern Shed
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT NORTHERN SHED, SOUTH PARADE
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:
- GREAT NORTHERN SHED, SOUTH PARADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 09666 24747
Details
In the entry for-
off SOUTH PARADE 1. 1164 (east side) SE 0924 NE Great Northern Shed (south side) 19/400
The address shall be amended to read:-
1. 1164 off SOUTH PARADE (east side) SE 0924 NE Great Northem Shed (south side) 19/400 II
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off SOUTH PARADE 1. 1164 (east side) SE 0924 NE Great Northern Shed 19/400 2. Railway engine shed. Built 1885 for the Lancashire and Yorkshire and Great Northern Railway Companies. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. 2 storey curved east front 10 bays, each bay topped by a shallow gable with a pilaster between and a thick first floor band. The ground floor has a pair of metal frame glazing bar windows to each bay. North front 5 bays, with engine openings below, one masked by a single storey office wing with chimney stack, and above 5 metal frame glazing bar windows, one replaced by a fire door. The west front, 10 bays, also topped by shallow gables with pilasters between and a thick first floor band. The ground floor has a pair of metal frame glazing bar windows to each bay, with above the scar of the original engine canopy and above again pairs of segment headed metal frame windows. South front 5 bays , with single window then 3 engine openings, and then to the right a 2 storey 4-bay office wing.
N.B.The building referred to in this schedule is The Great Northern Shed, off South Parade, Halifax ( NGR SE 0924 NE ) On 18th February 1991 this building was added to the 70th list of Buildings of Special architectural or historic interest in the City of Bradford in error. The building has now been deleted from the 70th list in the City of Bradford.
Listing NGR: SE0966624747
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 447634
- 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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