Workshops on Diglis Island, River Severn

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WORCESTER

SO85SW DIGLIS DOCK ROAD
620-1/3/2 Workshops on Diglis
01/02/99 Island, River Severn
(Formerly Listed as:
Workshops on Diglis
Island)

GV II

Workshops, formerly workshops, stable, accommodation and
chapel. c1840 with later additions and alterations. Red brick
in English bond with blue brick sills, slate roofs, blue clay
ridge tiles, brick stack with corbelled cap and pot to rear
roof slope of southern building; cast-iron frames to windows.
Plan: continuous range of 2 long, narrow buildings with
covered entrance range between; the north range is shorter,
narrower and lower. Single storey, 14 windows (8:6) to east
facade. Brick detailing includes: plinth, double corble course
at eaves, dentilled verges to gable end, openings mainly with
semi-circular arches (single full-brick arches to windows,
double half-brick arches to doors), sills have double row of
canted bricks. Multi-pane windows with ornate, lattice pattern
glazing bars and small side-hung opening section in centre.
Two windows in northern section retain some red and blue glass
to lower panes. Entrances: off-centre right; braced and framed
door with blind fanlight gives access to courtyard. Within,
there are facing entrances to gable ends: the southern range
has inserted, part-glazed and plank, off-centre right, double
doors to its north gable end and with oculus to apex with
radial glazing bars and 3 concentric rings; the northern range
has entrance to its south gable end with pair of round-arched
plank doors, the upper part glazed, between blind,
round-arched recesses. West facade: northern range has 2/2
sash window and pedestrian doorway.
INTERIOR: southern range has single, open pace with 6 exposed
king-post trusses on internal brick piers; store rooms off to
rear (west) under outshot. Otherwise not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the workshops on Diglis Island were built as
part of the river engineering works and included a chapel or
'Bethel' for the navvies engaged on the site in addition to
its further use as accommodation and workshops. The locks and
weir on the River Severn at Diglis were completed in October
1844 under the direction of the Worcester engineer, E. Leader
Williams. They were constructed along with similar devices
further upstream in order to maintain navigable water-levels
regardless of season.
(Old Worcester - People and Places: Gwilliam H W: Old
Worcester - People and Places: Worcester: 1977-: 104).

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Sources

Books and journals
Gwilliam, H W, Old Worcester People and Places, (1977), 104

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