MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUILDING L141

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329389
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUILDING L141
Statutory Address:: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUILDING L141

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Date:: 2001-08-28
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329389
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUILDING L141
Statutory Address 1:: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUILDING L141

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE BUILDING L141

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

County:: Essex
District:: Epping Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Waltham Abbey
National Grid Reference:: TL 37653 01376

Details

ROYAL GUNPOWDER FACTORY TL3700 3/10024 MOD Building L141 GV II

Sorting House. 1889. English bond yellow brick with red brick bands; brick-coped gables to slate roof over brick-vaulted roof. Rectangular plan. One storey. Inserted concrete lintel over doorway in west gable end, originally served by iron tramway. Segmental brick arches over 4-light windows to north and south elevations. Similar in design to the expense magazine L154 (qv). It is only referred to in the documentary sources as a "sorting house", and was clearly intimately associated with the manufacture of gunpowder and cordite for it to have a raised door served by the railway system. (RCHME report, 1993).

Listing NGR: TL3765301376

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Legacy System number:: 352173
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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The Royal Gunpowder Factory Waltham Abbey A Survey, (1994)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.