Ridge Locomotive Shed
RIDGE LOCOMOTIVE SHED
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376769
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Ridge Locomotive Shed
- Statutory Address:
- RIDGE LOCOMOTIVE SHED
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376769
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Ridge Locomotive Shed
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIDGE LOCOMOTIVE SHED
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:
- RIDGE LOCOMOTIVE SHED
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Arne
- National Grid Reference:
- SY9375586592
Details
SY 98 NW
235/6/10006
ARNE
RIDGE
Ridge Locomotive Shed
II
Railway locomotive shed. Circa 1870-80, built for Pike Bros. Brick. Slate roof with gabled ends. Small rectangular on plan building. Wooden sliding entrance doors at north end. Window on either side with cambered brick arch. Ventilator on ridge of roof.
INTERIOR said to have retained water tank. It is one of the earliest known narrow gauge locomotive sheds. Pike Bros built a horse drawn railway in 1833-9 from clay deposits at Blue Pool, to Ridge, east of Wareham on the River Frome, where a short canal gave access to the rail head. The clay was taken by barge to Poole Quay. The line was laid as edge rails of about 4ft gauge. It was extended to the banks of the River Frome, and by 1863 the line had been extended westwards to Creech. In 1866 the first railway locomotive used the line which was re-gauged to 2ft 8". The line to Ridge remained in use until the Second World War and the whole line was closed in 1959. One of the original users of the shed, the engine Secundus' [1874] survives in the Birmingham Museum of Science and Industry. The shed might have been built especially to house Secundus.
SOURCE: Wilmott, M. Unpublished research.
Listing NGR: SY9375586592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469054
- 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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