Former Transit Shed, Exeter St Davids Station
FORMER TRANSIT SHED, EXETER ST DAVIDS STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268441
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Transit Shed, Exeter St Davids Station
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER TRANSIT SHED, EXETER ST DAVIDS STATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268441
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Transit Shed, Exeter St Davids Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER TRANSIT SHED, EXETER ST DAVIDS STATION
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- FORMER TRANSIT SHED, EXETER ST DAVIDS STATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Exeter (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91122 93687
Details
SX 9193 EXETER
Former Transit Shed, Exeter St.
871/11/10013 David's Station
II
Goods trans-shipment shed for mixed gauge trains. c1860. Brick with engineering brick dressings to openings and limestone cornice, and corrugated sheet roof Rectangular plan originally with a central island platform. Single storey; 13-bay sides. EXTERIOR: A long, symmetrical shed with entablature and cornice all the way round under the eaves and across the coped gable ends; the sides are a round-arched arcade with stone keys and alternately blind and with metal-paned round-arched windows. The gables contain 2 wide semi-circular arches, that for the former broad gauge line slightly wider than that for the standard gauge line; above the cornice is a keyed gable oculus vent. INTERIOR: The arcades are repeated on the inner walls; the roof has timber principals, wrought-iron ties and king rods, and decorated cast-iron braces. One side of the two lines has been filled in. HISTORY: The shed was used for the trans-shipment of goods between the GWR's broad gauge wagons and the standard gauge wagons of the LSWR. It clearly manifests this use by the absence of doorways in the sides, as ordinary unloading sheds would have, and the different sizes of the end archways, for the different-sized trains. One other is known of, a timber shed that has been moved to Didcot. Trans-shipment would have ceased in 1892 when the broad gauge was converted. As such this building is of considerable historic interest, coming at the break of gauge between the two systems, and providing evidence of an important episode in British transport history . Corrugated iron extension not of special interest. Maggs, C, 'Rail Centres: Exeter', Ian Allen, 1985, 103.
Listing NGR: SX9112293687
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461828
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Maggs, C, Rail Centres Exeter, (1985), 103
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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