CLARE LALLOW'S GRID IRON YARD

CLARE LALLOW'S GRID IRON YARD, CASTLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1224153
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: CLARE LALLOW'S GRID IRON YARD
Statutory Address:: CLARE LALLOW'S GRID IRON YARD, CASTLE STREET

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Date:: 1999-08-01
Reference:: IOE01/00259/03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1224153
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: CLARE LALLOW'S GRID IRON YARD
Statutory Address 1:: CLARE LALLOW'S GRID IRON YARD, CASTLE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CLARE LALLOW'S GRID IRON YARD, CASTLE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: East Cowes
National Grid Reference:: SZ 50164 95610

Details

CASTLE STREET 1. 5270 Cowes Clare Lallow's Grid Iron Yard SZ 59 NW 5/140 II 2. Former seaplane factory now boatyard. C1912 - 13. Red brick in English bond, corners part header bond, with wide wooden eaves and hipped roof now covered in corrugated iron sheeting. South side has 2 cambered door surrounds with rectangular fanlights, plank doors and large 3 light casement. West side has 3 cambered arches and cambered doorcases. East side has 6 large 3 light casements with wooden frames and concrete lintols (one blocked). North side to River Medina has 4 post large wooden plank doors and iron slipway. Interior has scientific kingpost roof with through purlins. This building was originally built for the firm of J S White & Co for the construction of seaplanes, the 1st being launched in May 1913. Production later moved to west Cowes. Included as a very early seaplane factory. See Guide to Industrial Archaeology of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight by Dr Edwin Course of Southampton University.

Listing NGR: SZ5016495610

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Legacy System number:: 420133
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Course, E, Guide to Industrial Archaeology of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.