YELLOW BUS GARAGE

YELLOW BUS GARAGE, MALLARD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244305
Date first listed:: 17-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: YELLOW BUS GARAGE
Statutory Address:: YELLOW BUS GARAGE, MALLARD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244305
Date first listed:: 17-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: YELLOW BUS GARAGE
Statutory Address 1:: YELLOW BUS GARAGE, MALLARD 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:: YELLOW BUS GARAGE, MALLARD ROAD

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

District:: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SZ 10953 94474

Details

SZ 1094 BOURNEMOUTH MALLARD ROAD (South east side) 768/38/10054 Yellow Bus Garage

17.8.99 II

Bus garage, originally also for trolleybuses. 1950-1 by Jackson and Greenen for Bournemouth Corporation; Alfred Goldstein, consultant structural engineer. Brick walls. The roof is a reinforced concrete thin shell made up of nine cylindrical vaults 21h inches thick and integral edge beams at the valleys, set horizontally across the space; the whole roof of beams and shells was post-tensioned by prestressing cables in the beams, Magnel-Blaton system of post-tensioning. Each shell has a radius of 22ft 10in, and a span of 33ft. Clear span shed of 300ft by 150ft, with narrow lower spine of single-storey offices to south and still smaller offices within building on north side.. Elevations of two-tone brick with projecting headers relieved by double folding timber doors to front and back, with pairs of notches over for the trolleybus wires to run through and unbonded brickwork forming patterned panels of contrasting brick to either side. Wavy concrete canopy on left return reflects the form of the roof above, whose curved shells are clearly visible above the clerestory glazing. Unbonded brick panels below, like the projecting headers, are a particularly good example of Scandinavian-inspired decoration popular at the time. Petrol pumps on north side. Adjoining wash house is concrete framed construction with brick infill and concrete roof, contemporary with the garage. When built the 1 50ft span was the largest formed by shell construction in Britain, and was the first to be post-tensioned. Its publication in 1952 led to the widespread adoption of the technique. Sources: G W Kirkland and A Goldstein, Design and Construction of a Large spa ~Prestressed Concrete Shell Roof, in The Structural Engineer, vol 29, no.4, April 1951, pp.107-26 Architects' Journal, 8 November 1951, p.552, The Builder, 14 December 1951, 825-7, The Build r, 4 November 11)53, pp.351-6.

Listing NGR: SZ1095394474

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Legacy System number:: 476778
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'The Architects Journal' in 8 November, (1951), 552
'The Builder' in 14 December, (1951), 825-827
'The Builder' in 4 November, (1953)
Kirkland, G W, Goldstein, A, 'The Structural Engineer' in Design and Construction of a Large Span Prestressed Concrete Shell Roof, (1951), 107-126

Legal

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