Ministry of Defence Building L170A at TL 3778 0109
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUILDING L170A AT TL 3778 0109
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140100
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ministry of Defence Building L170A at TL 3778 0109
- Statutory Address:
- MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUILDING L170A AT TL 3778 0109
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140100
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ministry of Defence Building L170A at TL 3778 0109
- Statutory Address 1:
- MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUILDING L170A AT TL 3778 0109
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:
- MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUILDING L170A AT TL 3778 0109
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Waltham Abbey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37780 01090
Details
ROYAL GUNPOWDER FACTORY TL3700 3/10015 MOD Building L170a at TL 3778 0109 GV II
Expense magazine. 1857. English bond brick coped gable ends to slate roof over brick-vault. Rectangular plan. One storey. Raised doorway to north side formerly served by a railway on a trestle. Associated with buildings L168 and L176 (qv). The earliest expense magazine on the site - the others being L141 and L154 (qv)- which was built to serve the incorporating mill of 1857 (demolished). Built for the temporary storage of gunpowder before it was transported into the northern part of the site for pressing, moulding and drying.
Listing NGR: TL3778001090
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352177
- 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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