Former Railway Goods Shed
FORMER RAILWAY GOODS SHED, WESTFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383204
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Former Railway Goods Shed
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER RAILWAY GOODS SHED, WESTFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383204
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Former Railway Goods Shed
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER RAILWAY GOODS SHED, WESTFIELD 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:
- FORMER RAILWAY GOODS SHED, WESTFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wells
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 54329 45569
Details
WELLS
ST5445 WESTFIELD ROAD
662-1/5/339 (West side)
27/05/81 Former Railway Goods Shed
(Formerly Listed as:
TUCKER STREET
Former Railway Goods Shed)
II
Former railway goods shed, now commercial premises in multiple
occupancy. c1870. Draycott stone rubble, with Bath stone
ashlar dressings, Bridgwater triple-angle clay tiled roof,
with plain gables, roof overhung on east side over two main
archways.
EXTERIOR: single storey, 5 bays. East side has 4-centre-arched
windows with ashlar surrounds including imposts to bays 1 and
5, and matching doorway bay 3, large 4-centre arches bays 2
and 4. South gable has two large arches, over blind, the west
presumably over the former railway track.
West side has 4 windows and central door. North side has the
track arch on west side, and small one-storey extension on
north east corner, matching.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A good example of Great Western Railway architecture, on the
former Bristol and Exeter Railway line between Yatton and
Wells, opened April 5th 1870, serving Wells Tucker Street
Station, one of three stations in the city in the C19.
(Madge R: Somerset Railways: Taunton: 1984-).
Listing NGR: ST5432945569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483622
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Madge, R, Somerset Railways, (1984)
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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