Carriage Works No 8 Shop
CARRIAGE WORKS NO 8 SHOP, LONDON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283531
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Carriage Works No 8 Shop
- Statutory Address:
- CARRIAGE WORKS NO 8 SHOP, LONDON STREET
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- 2001-05-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/04341/22
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283531
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Carriage Works No 8 Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARRIAGE WORKS NO 8 SHOP, LONDON STREET
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:
- CARRIAGE WORKS NO 8 SHOP, LONDON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Swindon (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Swindon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 14592 84965
Details
LONDON STREET SU 1484 NE SWINDON (north side) 6/119 Carriage works No. 8 shop GV II Carriage works, now industrial workshops. 1870-72 for GWR, extended to east 1872-3. Rock-faced snecked Foxwood rubble with Bath stone quoins, strings and window dressings. Slate roofs with apex glazing and ventilation cowls. Street elevation of 15 bays in 5 groups of 3, 2 storeys. Ground floor arcaded windows with segmental heads and corniced keystones on cast iron columns. First floor brick segmental window heads, also with corniced keystones and multiple pivot lights. Glazed doors to ground level. East facade splayed. Internally, ground level iron joists on cast iron columns carrying brick segmental vaults. Upper floor 8 bays of cast iron round section keeled stanchions, lugged at storey heights, carrying I- section plates and light steel angle trusses. 6 spans. Similar intermediate columns on external side walls. Wall to London Street extended left with ground floor glazed accommodation to No. 7 shop (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SU1459284965
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318780
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Large, F, Swindon Retrospect 1855-1930, (1931)
Peck, A, The Great Western at Swindon Works, (1983)
Silto, J, A Swindon History 1840-1901, ()
Hudson, K, Transport History, ()
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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