Tracks End

Tracks End, Birts Street, Birtsmorton, WR13 6AW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391155
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-2004
List Entry Name:: Tracks End
Statutory Address:: Tracks End, Birts Street, Birtsmorton, WR13 6AW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391155
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-2004
List Entry Name:: Tracks End
Statutory Address 1:: Tracks End, Birts Street, Birtsmorton, WR13 6AW

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Tracks End, Birts Street, Birtsmorton, WR13 6AW

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Malvern Hills (District Authority)
Parish:: Birtsmorton
National Grid Reference:: SO7837836449

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/08/2019

1430/0/10013 08-OCT-04

BIRTSMORTON BIRTS STREET Tracks End (Formerly listed as Providence Bungalow)

II

House. Early C20. Single storey. A pair of railway coaches of painted metal and timber are arranged parallel to each other on a concrete platform and joined by a shallow structure of brick with external stacks flanked by small casement windows. This forms a narrow central room off which open the inner carriage doors, the carriages divided to create two rooms. Timber-framed gables and slate roof with brick end stacks.

Carriages form the whole back and front elevations and the curved ends with vertical panels appear intact in the gable ends. The basic structure of each carriage is intact comprising five units, each of a door flanked by windows; in both front and back elevations a traditional wooden house door has replaced the carriage door and one window at centre. Louvre ventilators above each carriage door, moulded surrounds to the carriage windows, clerestory sections reputedly obscured by eaves and gutter, panelled bodywork, door hinges still extant. On the internal side of the carriages, the windows have been painted out but the basic structure is intact and shows a construction of horizontal timber boarding.

This is a well-preserved example of a type of cheap housing which was formed by adapting C19 railway carriages to create housing in the early C20. Only one other example of a house incorporating two carriages has been listed.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 491939
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Biddle, , Nock, , The Railway Heritage of Britain, (1983)
Other
Information from Malvern Hills District Council

Legal

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