Railway Goods Shed and Offices
RAILWAY GOODS SHED AND OFFICES, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1267258
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Goods Shed and Offices
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY GOODS SHED AND OFFICES, STATION ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-09-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/04839/11
- Rights:
- © Mrs Marion Teal. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1267258
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Goods Shed and Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY GOODS SHED AND OFFICES, STATION ROAD
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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:
- RAILWAY GOODS SHED AND OFFICES, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stroud
- National Grid Reference:
- SO8506505039
Details
STROUD STATION ROAD
(South end)
5/500
Railway Goods Shed
and Offices
II
II*
Railway goods shed. c.1845; addition of c.1890; by I K Brunel for Western
Union Railway. Goods shed: coursed and squared rubble limestone; ashlar
dressings; ashlar chimney, part rebuilt in brick; Welsh slate roof (removed
February/March 1984). Offices: ashlar limestone; ashlar chimneys, Welsh slate
roof. Tudor revival open shed; 2-storey office attached at west end. North
(road) side: offset buttress at each end of elevation; central 4-centred arched
road vehicle doorway; 4-window casement fenestration to office wth central
doorway; chamfered surrounds to doorway and casements; eaves-mounted chimney
with moulded cap; office extender to right with single-storey flat
parapet-roofed addition; further doorway and casement to match. South (rail)
side: offset buttresses to ends and one centrally: 2 sets of four 4-centred
arched blocked lancets; painted lettering above reads: "G W R STROUD STATION
EXPRESS GOODS TRAIN SERVICES/AND TRANSITS BETWEEN IMPORTANT TOWNS"; scattered
casements to goods office; parapet-mounted chimney with moulded cap to flat
roofed addition. East end: parapet-gabled with 4-centred arched road vehicle
to right; rail opening to left in early C20 with steel lintel. West end:
parapet gabled with gable office projecting from between two 4-centred archways,
left for road vehicles, right for rail. Raised internal loading platform cut
out for road vehicle loading positions; timber boarded goods office against
north wall; timber stair to upper floor of goods office; trussed rafter and
purlin roof. Office extended c.1890 probably replacing very small lean-to
office; steel-framed early C20 extensions to east demolished c.1976 leaving
original building. Built to a Brunel standard design; now the only survivor of
this type.
(E T MacDermot History of the Great Western Railway, vol. i, 1964; G Biddle
and O S Nock, The Railway Heritage of Britain, 1983).
This building was previously listed grade II on 3 April 1985 on list no 47:
Listing NGR: SO8506505039
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419307
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
MacDermot, E T, History of the Great Western Railway 1833 to 1863, (1964)
Biddle, , Nock, , The Railway Heritage of Britain, (1983)
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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