WORKSHOPS ON DIGLIS ISLAND, RIVER SEVERN

WORKSHOPS ON DIGLIS ISLAND, RIVER SEVERN, DIGLIS DOCK ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389769
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: WORKSHOPS ON DIGLIS ISLAND, RIVER SEVERN
Statutory Address:: WORKSHOPS ON DIGLIS ISLAND, RIVER SEVERN, DIGLIS DOCK ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389769
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1999
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: WORKSHOPS ON DIGLIS ISLAND, RIVER SEVERN
Statutory Address 1:: WORKSHOPS ON DIGLIS ISLAND, RIVER SEVERN, DIGLIS DOCK ROAD

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.

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WORKSHOPS ON DIGLIS ISLAND, RIVER SEVERN, DIGLIS DOCK ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Worcester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 84683 53369

Details

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)

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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).

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 488720
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.