SMEDLEY CANNING FACTORY

SMEDLEY CANNING FACTORY, LYNN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229023
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: SMEDLEY CANNING FACTORY
Statutory Address:: SMEDLEY CANNING FACTORY, LYNN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229023
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: SMEDLEY CANNING FACTORY
Statutory Address 1:: SMEDLEY CANNING FACTORY, LYNN ROAD

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:: SMEDLEY CANNING FACTORY, LYNN ROAD

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Fenland (District Authority)
Parish:: Wisbech
National Grid Reference:: TF 46500 10113

Details

WISBECH LYNN ROAD TF 41 SE (North Side) 2/75 Smedley Canning Factory GV II

Factory offices, Art Deco style c.1923, built by the Smedley family. Moulded stone and brown brick. Two storeys and basement, symmetrical facade. Stepped pediment with sunk panelled quoins rising above parapet with relief, contoured, geometric designs. Deep frieze with 'National Canning Company Ltd.' lettering removed. Enriched cornice to parapet. Windows with metal glazing bars of various sizes, symmetrically positioned in two storey brick panels flanking main entrance. Stone plinth. Entrance bay, including first floor window with key block of stone, with stepped and recessed panels. Horizontal, segmental shaped canopy supported by fanned key block to doorway, and original two panelled, double-doors.

Listing NGR: TF4650010113

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Legacy System number:: 48272
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.