Severn Wharf Building (Premises of Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust)
SEVERN WHARF BUILDING (PREMISES OF IRONBRIDGE GORGE MUSEUM TRUST), THE WHARFAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1293325
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Severn Wharf Building (Premises of Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust)
- Statutory Address:
- SEVERN WHARF BUILDING (PREMISES OF IRONBRIDGE GORGE MUSEUM TRUST), THE WHARFAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1293325
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Severn Wharf Building (Premises of Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust)
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEVERN WHARF BUILDING (PREMISES OF IRONBRIDGE GORGE MUSEUM TRUST), THE WHARFAGE
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:
- SEVERN WHARF BUILDING (PREMISES OF IRONBRIDGE GORGE MUSEUM TRUST), THE WHARFAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- The Gorge
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 66782 03638
Details
IRONBRIDGE THE WHARFAGE 1. 5362 south side Severn Wharf Building (Premises of Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust) SJ 6603 13/394 26.3.68
II* GV
2. Mid/late C19, originally a wharf building and warehouse of the Coalbrookdale Company. Red with yellow brick dressings in Gothick style. Castellated with pinnacles and buttresses, moulded stringcourses, pointed arch window openings with dripmoulds, diamond-paned casements. Single storey range south-east front has large 4-centred arch doorway right and left with polygonal 'apse' at centre with lancets and 2 flanking castellated turrets. Each turret has a round ornamental terracotta chimnay pot. The sides have 4 gables each with pointed arch windows. Plain tile roof. Originally there was a basin for barges adjacent to the wharf building.
Listing NGR: SJ6678203638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 362247
- 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.
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