ROYAL ARSENAL FORMER NEW CARRIAGE STORE BUILDING 10

ROYAL ARSENAL FORMER NEW CARRIAGE STORE BUILDING 10, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1358997
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: ROYAL ARSENAL FORMER NEW CARRIAGE STORE BUILDING 10
Statutory Address:: ROYAL ARSENAL FORMER NEW CARRIAGE STORE BUILDING 10, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1358997
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Jul-1997
List Entry Name:: ROYAL ARSENAL FORMER NEW CARRIAGE STORE BUILDING 10
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL ARSENAL FORMER NEW CARRIAGE STORE BUILDING 10, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Statutory Address:: ROYAL ARSENAL FORMER NEW CARRIAGE STORE BUILDING 10, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Greenwich (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ4393579159

Details

TQ 4379 786/9/51 08/06/73

PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18 (North side) Royal Arsenal Former new Carriage Store (building 10)

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Carriage works, smitheries and workshops, disused. 1802-05, altered C19, central courtyard totally rebuilt 1937 and 1967. Polychromatic stock brick with pitched slate roof, with galvanised asbestos and outer lead-clad roofs. PLAN: Single-depth ranges around a large courtyard, with central vehicle entrances to front (north) and rear (south) and single vehicle entrances to middle of both sides. EXTERIOR: The best-preserved section is the 2-storey north range; symmetrical 3:9:3:9:3:9:3-fenestration under a dentil cornice, the middle 3 pedimented bays set forward with plat band, central round arch flanked by oculi, and a square clock tower behind with ogee roof and iron finial. Flanking sections have gauged brick round-arched ground-floor and segmental-arched first-floor windows, mostly with 6/6-pane sashes; linking gateways have round carriage archways defined by 4 pilasters to coped parapets, the right-hand one with an inserted roller blind, the left-hand one with an inserted tripartite window. The outer former corner engine houses have segmental-arched ground-floor windows and blind panels above, parapets and tall lanterns. Single-storey side and rear ranges. W side range in similar style as the corner blocks, with central entrance sections with a round-arched gateway flanked by parapets with sunken panels set over segmental-arched windows. The E range was largely rebuilt in the later C19 and mid C20, leaving only fragments of the early C19 building; the rear (south) range was also partly rebuilt but is more complete, retaining one early C19 entrance, and is obscured to its eastern half by later extensions. INTERIOR: former courtyard area largely altered 1960s. Includes C19 iron roof trusses to single-depth outer ranges; south-central room notable as retaining colonnaded south wall, with bolting holes for line-shafting brackets to cast-iron columns; see RCHME report for further details. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Royal Carriage Factory produced gun carriages and mounted cannon on them; it was founded in 1728, and the building damaged by fire in 1802. The present building may incorporate some of the earlier structure, and surrounded a large smithery within the courtyard. The front (north) range is the most complete and significant remaining element of the 1802-5 factory building, and the eastern and southern (rear) ranges have been partly rebuilt. Although the east and south ranges clearly have less intrinsic interest than the more complete north and west ranges, they are included in the listing because they comprise part of the courtyard plan, which defines the extent of one of the largest planned groups of engineering workshops of its period in the world, also illustrative of the scale of cannon making in the Napoleonic Wars: only fragments have survived from the internal courtyard, which originally comprised open avenues planned around three parallel smitheries, each flanked by wheelers' shops. (RCHME report, 1994)

Listing NGR: TQ4393579159

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Sources

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'Historic Buildings Report' in The Royal Arsenal Woolwich, (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.