Main Engine Shop to Rear of Original Plant Works Building at Doncaster Station
MAIN ENGINE SHOP TO REAR OF ORIGINAL PLANT WORKS BUILDING AT DONCASTER STATION, HEXTHORPE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151419
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Main Engine Shop to Rear of Original Plant Works Building at Doncaster Station
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN ENGINE SHOP TO REAR OF ORIGINAL PLANT WORKS BUILDING AT DONCASTER STATION, HEXTHORPE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151419
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Main Engine Shop to Rear of Original Plant Works Building at Doncaster Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN ENGINE SHOP TO REAR OF ORIGINAL PLANT WORKS BUILDING AT DONCASTER STATION, HEXTHORPE 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:
- MAIN ENGINE SHOP TO REAR OF ORIGINAL PLANT WORKS BUILDING AT DONCASTER STATION, HEXTHORPE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 56980 02971
Details
TOWN OF DONCASTER HEXTHORPE ROAD SE 50 SE (east side)
3/38 Main engine shop to rear of original Plant Works building at Doncaster Station
GV II
Original erecting shops and boiler shop, now main machine shop. 1853 with later additions c1860s for Great Northern Railway. Dark red brick with brick and stone dressings and corrugated plastic roof. Tall single-storey throughout. Erecting shops to north, 15 bays long and 3 wide gabled bays across, wider infill bay to south with double gabled boiler shop, beyond of 13 bays long. Later additions to end and sides not of special interest. Side elevations of erecting shops have continuous ashlar sill band and bays articulated by brick pilasters with friezes and cornices supporting simple entablature with dentilled cornice. Each bay has tall segmental-headed window with small pane metal casement windows. End elevation to north-west has large segmental-arched window to central bay and three segmental- headed small-pane metal casements above inserted doorways to side bays. Opposite elevation has been rendered and has similar arrangement of pilasters and arched windows as side elevation, also sunken panels to gables. Central bay has wide segmental arched opening, now glazed. Later infill bay and boiler shop, . all built in similar style with pilasters, arched windows and gabled fronts. Interior of erecting shops and boiler shop, have their original arcades with round arches on massive brick piers with stone impost blocks. All roofs are C20. Listed partly for historic interest, as the place where some of the most innovative locomotives were built. Source: 'History of the Dcncaster Plant works from 1853 to the prese5Lt . day', by J E Day 1953'.
Listing NGR: SE5698002971
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335033
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Day, J E, History of Doncaster Plant Works from 1853 to Present Day, (1953)
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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