Paint Stores and Electroplating Shop
PAINT STORES AND ELECTROPLATING SHOP, NEWTOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389436
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Paint Stores and Electroplating Shop
- Statutory Address:
- PAINT STORES AND ELECTROPLATING SHOP, NEWTOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389436
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Paint Stores and Electroplating Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAINT STORES AND ELECTROPLATING SHOP, NEWTOWN 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:
- PAINT STORES AND ELECTROPLATING SHOP, NEWTOWN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Willesborough & Newtown
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 01840 41498
Details
750/0/10035 NEWTOWN ROAD 18-SEP-01 Paint Stores and electroplating shop at Newtown Railway Works
GV II
Paint store, later electroplating shop. c1865, built for the South Eastern Railway. Built of yellow brick with a Welsh slate roof with central glazed louvre. This is a single storey building approximately 12.2m x 8.9m divided into two units by a brick party wall. The north elevation originally had four tall, round, rubbed-brick headed windows set in rectangular recesses; the first and third from the left of these are now doors. The tall round-headed windows set in rectangular headed recesses on the south elevation are blocked, as are the three tall arches with no recesses on the east and west elevations. The west elevation has a later lean-to added. Plain roof with central raised glazed louvre on the ridge. Interior: This was not seen at inspection (July 1998) but is reported to have a central dividing wall and iron roof trusses. History: This building appears first on the OS map of 1871 where it is marked as a paint store, but was latterly used as an electroplating shop. It dates probably from the 1860s. The building was semi-fireproof, built as being suitable for storing combustible and gaseous materials such as paint. This is the only early building surviving on the Ashford works site with fire resistant features. The metal trusses are built up from cast iron struts and wrought iron plates, some of the joints are wedged rather than bolted and such construction would point to an early date. Reason for listing: Included for its group value at the centre of the early railway works layout and for its special design features as a paint store within the locomotive establishment. Reference: RCHME, The Railway Works, Ashford, Kent, 1990.
Listing NGR: TR0184041498
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488095
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Railway Works, Ashford, Kent, (1990)
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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