Corn Stores
CORN STORES, 1-8, WHARF STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211914
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Corn Stores
- Statutory Address:
- CORN STORES, 1-8, WHARF STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211914
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Corn Stores
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORN STORES, 1-8, WHARF STREET
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:
- CORN STORES, 1-8, WHARF STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 47288 67144
Details
SU 4767 SW WHARF STREET
65/6/231 Numbers 1-8
(consecutive) Corn Stores
29.9.50
GV II*
Alternatively known as : OLD GRANARY,
Warehouse, now museum and shop. Circa late C17, altered circa 1935 and 1970. Red brick in Flemish bond with some vitrified headers and timber gallery on front. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends.
PLAN: Long narrow single depth range of eight cells, each cell of two bays; and with continuous timber gallery at front with double flight of stairs at centre. Ground floor remodelled in 1930s when front wall of the ground floor was replaced by bay windows.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Long north front with C20 canted bay windows on the ground floor. Timber gallery cantilevered out on first floor with double flight of wooden stairs at centre; the main roof is carried down to form a canopy over the gallery and is supported on a series of cranked posts with wooden rails between, the rails in front of the first floor doorways removeable; the first floor doorways have plank doors, timber lintels and semi-circular relieving arches, their tympana pierced by extended tie-beams of the main roof which support the gallery roof. Some later inserted windows at rear. East end wall rebuilt or refaced in brick.
INTERIOR: Ground floor has unchamfered cross-beams jettied out at front to support gallery. Brick partition walls dividing range into eight bays, each bay with 2-bay roof with queen-post and collar trusses, the softwood tie-beams extending through front wall to support gallery roof purlin; tenoned purlins; common-rafter couples intact. The roof has been strengthened by later diagonal braces and intermediate collars.
NOTE: This warehouse is situated on the old wharf of the River Kennet, and it adjoins the Cloth Hall of 1626-7, which was built as a municipal cloth-weaving workshop to provide employment for the poor.
Listing NGR: SU4719867140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396436
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newbury Buildings Past and Present, (1973), 50
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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