Royal Arsenal Building 19
ROYAL ARSENAL BUILDING 19, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245205
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Arsenal Building 19
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL ARSENAL BUILDING 19, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245205
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Arsenal Building 19
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL ARSENAL BUILDING 19, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
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:
- ROYAL ARSENAL BUILDING 19, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Greenwich (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 43914 79213
Details
TQ 4479 PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
(North side)
786- /9/10070 Royal Arsenal
Building 19
GV II
Carriage mounting shop, disused. 1887, drawings signed by Col H Crozier, Inspector of Works, and G Munday, contractor, cast-iron internal frame by John Lysaghts of Bristol dated 1887. Yellow stock brick with corrugated sheet valley roof; internal iron frame. Rectangular plan of 3 parallel gabled ranges, the N range shorter. 1 storey; 12-bay range. EXTERIOR: Near-symmetrical front has moulded brick eaves, sunken flat-headed bays containing paired round-arched windows with 6/6-pane sashes, blind right-hand end, and wide round-arched doorway 4 bays from the right with a fanlight to boarded doors. Coped end gables have 3 sunken panels with round-arched windows and matching recesses, and an oculus. N range 6 bays with a segmental-arched carriage entrance and ridge lantern behind the raised W gable. INTERIOR: contains a central arcade of cast-iron posts with flanged caps to an I -section rivetted beam, and rolled iron roof trusses with diagonal braces and wrought-iron ties bolted to a round central connecting plate. A gantry crane is supported by heavy cast-iron openwork piers to wrought-iron riveted gantry rails, later traveller. Shorter N range possibly built for storage. Narrow and standard gauge rails cross the hall. HISTORICAL NOTE: Known as the Mounting Ground, part of the Royal Carriage Department and used for mounting gun barrels onto the carriages. Of historical interest as a near-complete part of the Royal Carriage Department, and which as an industrial building type is comparable with the erecting shops found in the great railway engineering works of the period, now best preserved at Swindon and Derby.
Listing NGR: TQ4391479213
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468765
- 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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