Former GWR School
Former GWR School, Great Western One, Bristol Street, Swindon, SN1 5ET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283807
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Former GWR School
- Statutory Address:
- Former GWR School, Great Western One, Bristol Street, Swindon, SN1 5ET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283807
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Former GWR School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former GWR School, Great Western One, Bristol Street, Swindon, SN1 5ET
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:
- Former GWR School, Great Western One, Bristol Street, Swindon, SN1 5ET
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 14388 84722
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 28/04/2020
SU 1484 NW
5/55
SWINDON
BRISTOL STREET
Great Western One
Former GWR School
(formerly listed as Now fire and emergency services depot (formerly GWR School), Church Place)
II
This is the former infants’ school of 1857, by Moffatt and Scott, the only remnant of the former school. The school closed in 1879 and the earlier school buildings of 1843-1844 were demolished in 1881 and the former infants’ school became the works’ laboratory. In 1883, a single-storey extension for the GWR’s horse-drawn wagons was built to the north. Rock-faced snecked rubble in black mortar, with ashlar limestone quoins. Slate roof with apex rooflights. Single storey, four bays of paired shouldered lights. Slightly projecting stacks diminishing at eaves offsets.
Listing NGR: SU1438884722
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318715
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cattell, J, Falconer, K, Swindon: The Legacy of a Railway Town (RCHME), (1995), 61, 164
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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