Carpenters' Shop at Former Railway Yard
CARPENTERS' SHOP AT FORMER RAILWAY YARD, MAYOR'S WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242949
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Carpenters' Shop at Former Railway Yard
- Statutory Address:
- CARPENTERS' SHOP AT FORMER RAILWAY YARD, MAYOR'S WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242949
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Carpenters' Shop at Former Railway Yard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARPENTERS' SHOP AT FORMER RAILWAY YARD, MAYOR'S WALK
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:
- CARPENTERS' SHOP AT FORMER RAILWAY YARD, MAYOR'S WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 18641 99181
Details
TL1899 MAYOR'S WALK 819/9/10011 (West side) 23-DEC-99 Carpenters' shop at former railway yard
II Carpenters' shop. C1850. C20 repairs and minor alterations. For the Great Northern railway. Gault brick, with red brick dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys;10 window range. Windows are mainly cast iron glazing bar casements with red brick segmental heads. Each side is divided by pilasters into recessed bays with dentillated heads. On the yard side, the fifth bay is narrower, and the second bay has a double door. The other bays have each a window on each floor. The street side is blank, and has skylights and 3 tall, coped side wall stacks. The gable ends have a central pilaster dividing them into 2 bays with dentillated heads, and eaves brackets. South gable has to left a pair of half-glazed workshop doors under a cast iron lintel, and above, a blocked opening to left, and a round headed cast iron casement to right. Central gable stack. North gable has C20 fire escape and first floor door.
INTERIOR:Wooden cross beams with paired wrought iron truss-rods in cast iron shoes, carrying conventional wooden floor. On each floor, partitions enclosing offices. Plain wooden stair to first floor. Wooden queen post truss roof with diagonal strutting and centre post.
This is a specialised industrial building for railway use, and the trussed beams are an unusual constructional feature.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 498173
- 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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