RAILWAY WAREHOUSE

RAILWAY WAREHOUSE, GREAT NORTHERN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230231
Date first listed:: 05-Sep-1986
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY WAREHOUSE
Statutory Address:: RAILWAY WAREHOUSE, GREAT NORTHERN ROAD

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Date:: 2004-08-18
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230231
Date first listed:: 05-Sep-1986
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY WAREHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: RAILWAY WAREHOUSE, GREAT NORTHERN 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:: RAILWAY WAREHOUSE, GREAT NORTHERN ROAD

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

District:: City of Derby (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 34571 36199

Details

OFF GREAT NORTHERN ROAD 1. 5170 (North side) SK 3436 SE Railway Warehouse 4/1 II GV

2. Railway Warehouse built for the Great Northern Railway at their Friargate Station. 1877-8 by Kirk & Randall of Sleaford. Red brick and Welsh slate and glazed roofs with three brick stacks to east. Unusual plan of rectangular warehouse with triangular office block with a mezzanine floor, to the east. Two and three storeys, over a basement. Double chamfered plinth, moulded corbelled eaves cornice. South elevation of twenty-one bays divided into groups of three by giant pilaster strips. The centre bay has a segmental arched entrance, otherwise the ground floor has segment headed windows with metal casements. Similar windows above except for two bays with double doors and two bays with bracketed out timber hoist structures under oversailing gables, one partly demolished. West elevation of 1-4-1 bays with mostly segment headed windows and a large tripartite railway entrance under riveted box girder. Bays one and five step forward. North elevation is similar to the south, but of 27 bays.The east end forms part of the offices and has three storeys with six segment headed sashes to each floor. Rounded corner to acute north east angle, with tripartite arrangement of sashes to each floor. South east elevation of 2-2-5-2-2 bays. The outer pairs have two segment headed windows to three floors. The centre five bays have similar windows above a large opening under a riveted box girder. The office block with rounded acute angle was built to front onto the proposed approach road from Friary Street to Friargate Station.

Listing NGR: SK3457136199

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Legacy System number:: 405121
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.