St Nicholas Works
ST NICHOLAS WORKS, COWPER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342698
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas Works
- Statutory Address:
- ST NICHOLAS WORKS, COWPER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342698
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST NICHOLAS WORKS, COWPER ROAD
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:
- ST NICHOLAS WORKS, COWPER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dereham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 99064 13360
Details
The following building shall be added: 1. 1067 COWPER ROAD TF 9913 3/105 St. Nicholas Works
II 2. Agricultural engineering works. Built in 1846 for J.W. Gidney and Son. Flemish bond red brick, the north side and east end are roughcast. Corrugated iron roofs with gabled ends.
Plan: Long rectangular plan; 2 storeys at the east end and single storey at the west end. The west end is divided into 2 sections inside but it is not certain whether there are partition walls inside the 2 storey east range. Exterior: 12-bay south elevation; 6 bays to right 2 storey and 6 bays to left 1 storey. The bays are divided by brick pilasters. Segmental-leaded window openings, smaller on first floor, all with original cast-iron windows, the glazing bars with floral crosses at their intersections. Segmentally headed doorway in bay 8 from left (in 2 storey section) with plank door with elaborately scrolled cast-iron strap hinges. The north elevation has similar windows and there are the same cast-iron windows on the east end either side of a wide doorway with a loading doorway above, now boarded over; the ground floor window to right has been blocked. At the west end there is a small round window with a cast-iron frame in the apex of the gable and a wide sliding door below.
Interior: Not inspected but the roof of the single storey range was seen to have the original cast-iron trusses with pierced spandrels to the braces under the collars. The roof structure of the 2-storey range is probably also original but the floor is now supported on RSJ's.
Historical Note: Jeremiah William Gidney's firm was founded in the C18 and it made wire fencing and farm implements. His son, W.T. Gidney, by 1864 was using the building as an iron and brass foundry and he was a whitesmith as well as a coal merchant. In the late C19 the business passed to John Roots who already had a large works at South Green, where he operated a steam threshing machine and made agricultural implements. In 1910 he built a roller skating rink in a corner of the yard of the St. Nicholas works. In 1919 the premises were rented to Balding Bros. who eventually bought it in 1934 and it is still used as an agricultural engineering works.
Source: Norfolk Heritage Trust.
Listing NGR: TF9906413360
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219499
- 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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