Former Engine Shed
FORMER ENGINE SHED, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390818
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Former Engine Shed
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER ENGINE SHED, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390818
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Former Engine Shed
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER ENGINE SHED, STATION 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 ENGINE SHED, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Moretonhampstead
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7582985647
Details
1803/0/10004
22-NOV-01
MORETONHAMPSTEAD
STATION ROAD
Former Engine Shed
II
Railway engine shed. Built circa 1866, by the South Devon Railway Company; engineer Peter Margery. Granite with dressed granite quoins and voussoirs. Gable-ended slate roof; ridge ventilator re-clad in corrugated asbestos sheets.
PLAN: Rectangular plan with entrance on west end and store/office on north east corner.
EXTERIOR: Single storey. Large round arch entrance for engines on west end. On north and south sides there are four round-headed windows with glazing bars. On north east corner there is a small gable-ended office/store building with a late C20 sheet steel shed built in the angle.
INTERIOR not inspected, but original roof structure probably intact.
NOTE: This engine shed was built by the South Devon Railway Company in 1866, when the Newton Abbot to Moretonhampstead branch line was opened.
A good early example of a broad gauge railway engine shed.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492209
- 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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