FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE SHED

FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE SHED, NUNN MILLS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249276
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1995
List Entry Name:: FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE SHED
Statutory Address:: FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE SHED, NUNN MILLS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249276
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1995
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Jul-2003
List Entry Name:: FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE SHED
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE SHED, NUNN MILLS 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:: FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE SHED, NUNN MILLS ROAD

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

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Far Cotton and Delapre
National Grid Reference:: SP 76059 59600

Details

SP 75 NE NORTHAMPTON NUNN MILLS ROAD (west side (off))

18/10010 Former Midland Railway Locomotive Shed

II

Railway locomotive shed, now disused. 1873 for the Midland Railway. Polychrome brick with corrugated sheet roof. Single storey; 15-window range of iron-framed windows with white brick round-arched heads and margin and triangular glazing. Stone sills and blue brick sill band. The last window on the right to front and rear and the windows on the right end are blocked. The windows on the long sides are set within a blind arcade of white brick arches on red brick pilasters. Plinth and dentilled eaves cornice. Rear similar. Slightly remodelled lower range with pedestrian entrance on right end. Left end has wide door frame under segmental arch, the iron lintel supported on central iron pier. The left half is blocked, the right is open. INTERIOR retains the original roof structure with wooden principals, collars and purlins and metal bracing and tie rods. Minor damage to roof structure in the 6 western bays from a 2000 fire. A rare and little altered example of a Midland Railway locomotive shed.

Listing NGR: SP7606359600

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Legacy System number:: 431363
Legacy System:: LBS

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