THE LATHE HOUSE AT CRESCENT WAGGON REPAIR SHOP

THE LATHE HOUSE AT CRESCENT WAGGON REPAIR SHOP, THORPE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334941
Date first listed:: 12-Jan-2001
List Entry Name:: THE LATHE HOUSE AT CRESCENT WAGGON REPAIR SHOP
Statutory Address:: THE LATHE HOUSE AT CRESCENT WAGGON REPAIR SHOP, THORPE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334941
Date first listed:: 12-Jan-2001
List Entry Name:: THE LATHE HOUSE AT CRESCENT WAGGON REPAIR SHOP
Statutory Address 1:: THE LATHE HOUSE AT CRESCENT WAGGON REPAIR SHOP, THORPE 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:: THE LATHE HOUSE AT CRESCENT WAGGON REPAIR SHOP, THORPE ROAD

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

District:: City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 18542 98712

Details

TL1898NE THORPE ROAD 819/4/10019 (North side) 12-JAN-01 The Lathe House at Crescent Waggon Repair Shop

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Lathe house. C1880 for the Midland Railway. Timber framed and clad building with a Welsh slate roof. Small rectangular building with gabled roof, clad in vertical boarding. One long wall has a continuous window of four cross-framed lights with timber mullions between. Gutters supported on shaped timber brackets. Low pitch roof with raised ventilator on the centre of the ridge. The rear long wall has large boarded doors to the centre. The gables ends are blind with plain bargeboards. INTERIOR: not seen History: Built as the lathe house for and contemporary with the adjoining waggon works of the Midland Railway. The only Victorian waggon works building still in use for its built purposes. Included as a part of, and for its group value with, this uniquely well preserved Victorian railway waggon works.

Listing NGR: TL1854298712

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

Legacy System number:: 486846
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.