Bury Transport Museum
BURY TRANSPORT MUSEUM, CASTLECROFT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390768
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Bury Transport Museum
- Statutory Address:
- BURY TRANSPORT MUSEUM, CASTLECROFT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390768
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Bury Transport Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURY TRANSPORT MUSEUM, CASTLECROFT 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:
- BURY TRANSPORT MUSEUM, CASTLECROFT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bury (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 80198 10928
Details
326/0/10066 CASTLECROFT ROAD 22-DEC-03 Castlecroft Bury Transport Museum
II Transport Museum, formerly railway warehouse. c.1846, with minor C20 alterations. Erected for the East Lancashire Railway Company Ltd. as part of the company headquarters in Bury. Coursed rubble sandstone with dressed quoins and voussoirs and a Welsh slate roof covering. PLAN: Rectangular plan, made up of 3 gabled ranges originally accommodating 2 internal trackways. EXTERIOR: Front elevation composed of 3 linked gables, that to the centre with a wide central semi-circular arched opening with rock-faced dressings. The flanking smaller gables have similar, but narrower openings sited off centre towards the inner side of the bagle wall. The doorways have boarded double doors with vertical boarding to the arch heads. The 2 side walls and the rear wall are similarly detailed with 3 arch-headed doorways, and the north side wall has a 2 light mullioned window close to the north-west corner. INTERIOR: The interior retains its former open plan appearance, with arcades of cast-iron columns supporting the tie beams and valley gutters of the triple-pitch roof. Each roof section has trussed formed from principal rafters with angle braces and vertical metal tie rods supporting single purlins. The original loading platforms and setted floor surfaces reamin in situ. HISTORY: The goods shed is thought to have formed part of the original station complex developed in Bury c.1846. It is shown on the 1848 O.S. map of the town. The 1896 map identifies the building as the 'Goods Station' and show 2 lines entering the building 2 lines flanking the building, and a short section of track running parallel to the rear (west )wall linking these lines, presumably by means of turntables.
A well-preserved early large-scale railway warehouse of c.1846, later identified as a 'goods station' built to facilitate the covered storage and transfer of goods between the rail and road networks. In its scale and detailing, the building anticipates the form of later warehousing and transhipment buildings developed for the railway network.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491379
- 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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