Whitby Engine Shed and Engine Stable Cottage
Engine Stable Cottage, Waterstead Lane, Whitby, YO21 1AE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239954
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Whitby Engine Shed and Engine Stable Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Engine Stable Cottage, Waterstead Lane, Whitby, YO21 1AE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239954
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Whitby Engine Shed and Engine Stable Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Engine Stable Cottage, Waterstead Lane, Whitby, YO21 1AE
- Statutory Address 2:
- Whitby Engine Shed, Waterstead Lane, Whitby, YO21 1AE
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:
- Engine Stable Cottage, Waterstead Lane, Whitby, YO21 1AE
- Statutory Address:
- Whitby Engine Shed, Waterstead Lane, Whitby, YO21 1AE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitby
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 89884 10603
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/05/2015
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WHITBY
Waterstead Lane
Whitby Engine Shed and Engine Stable Cottage
(Formerly listed as The Former Engine Shed, off ESK TERRACE (east side))
II
Former engine shed, later a boat building shed. Built 1847 extended 1868 for the Whitby and Pickering Railway Company. Ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with overhanging eaves, continuous raised ventilator and single gable stack. Ashlar plinth and quoins. South front has two large round headed engine openings, with flush ashlar surrounds. That to the left with double plank doors, and that to the right now filled with brieze blocks. To the left a small, low office wing with a single door and window, both with segment heads, and a shallow pitched hipped roof with over hanging eaves. East front, eight window original range, with 10 x 12 pane glazing bar segment headed windows. Beyond to right seven window extension, with 12 x 18 pane taller glazing bar segment headed windows. Originally the extension was eight windows long, but the final bay was demolished after bomb damage. Rebuilt brick north front has two circular ventilation openings.
Interior: scissor truss roof to original section, and queen post truss roof to later extension.
Listing NGR: NZ8988410603
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438017
- 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.
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