COLES YARD AND SLIPWAY

COLES YARD AND SLIPWAY, ARCTIC ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271949
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:: COLES YARD AND SLIPWAY
Statutory Address:: COLES YARD AND SLIPWAY, ARCTIC ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271949
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:: COLES YARD AND SLIPWAY
Statutory Address 1:: COLES YARD AND SLIPWAY, ARCTIC 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: COLES YARD AND SLIPWAY, ARCTIC ROAD

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

District:: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cowes
National Grid Reference:: SZ4987494878

Details

This List Entry was subject to a Minor Amendment 06/01/2017

The following building shall be added to the list:-

COWES

SZ 49 SE 6/10000

ARCTIC ROAD

(East side) Coles Yard and Slipway (Formerly listed under Arctic Street)

II

Yacht building and fitting yard. Constructed by George Henry Marvin in 1885. Comprises chimney, arch, which originally contained the Pattern Shop, and slipway. Engine chimney of stock brick, square in section about 50 feet high, tapering to top with simple cap with modillion cornice. This is attached to a stone segmental arch with stock brick voussoirs, the arch filled in with weatherboarding with 2 C19 industrial windows and unloading doors. Two lean-to weatherboarded structures are attached, one of which is the winch house. The arch bears a tablet inscribed GM 1885. The interior contains the original 1885 2.5hp beam engine driving a winding drum through a four stage reduction gearing now adapted to run on compressed air. The boiler has been moved and adapted to act as an air reservoir chamber. Attached to the arch is the slipway constructed of local stone blocks with 4 steps at each shore end and flights of 13 steps two thirds of the way along ending in a wooden pier each side with mainly chamfered concrete supports. The floor of the dock is made of large concrete slabs on which lie three railway tracks to support the cradles. At the end of the C19 this was probably the single largest yacht building and fitting enterprise in Britain, its importance shown by its work on King George V's racing cutter "Britannia".In World War I the slipway was used to convert large yachts and pleasure boats into patrol boats. In World War II Coles Yard was the base for Free French naval patrol boats.

Listing NGR: SZ4987494878

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 452316
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.