Summary
Goodshed and offices built for the Midland Railway's Settle to Carlisle line in 1873.
Reasons for Designation
* Architecture: good quality architectural design, employing well-finished local red sandstone.
* Preservation: a remarkably little-altered example of a standard Midland Railway design retaining both its goods office and a detached weighbridge office, together with frequently missing features such as ornamental window tracery.
* Rarity: a well-preserved, rare survival of a once ubiquitous building type.
* Group value: being located adjacent to the Settle to Carlisle Line, the goods shed is clearly visible to passing trains and thus has group value with other listed contemporary structures along the line.
History
The goods shed with its attached office, along with the associated weighbridge office to the north, were built in 1873 by the Midland Railway as part of the Settle to Carlisle railway line. They were designed by the company architect H J Sanders. During the Victorian period, goods traffic was economically more important than passengers so the goods shed was a key component of the railway station at Long Marton: the passenger station building still survives (now in domestic use) and lies about 240m to the north west. The goods shed was designed to accommodate three goods wagons at a time, transferring loads to horse drawn carts via three cart entrances in the north east wall. The form of the three cart entrances suggest that the central one was designed to allow carts to be backed fully into the goods shed (allowing direct transfer of goods with the railway wagon as normally practiced in a transhipment shed) whereas the two flanking entrances (with their raised timber thresholds) are thought to have opened onto raised platforms internally allowing the unloading of carts and wagons at different times and the short term storage of goods within the shed. An additional loading door in the south west wall would have facilitated transfer of goods between a wagon within the shed and a second railway wagon on the run-round loop immediately outside of the shed.
The railway tracks serving the goods yard are still shown on the 1968 1:10560 Ordnance Survey map but were removed by the time of the survey for the 1971 1:2500 map.
Details
Railway goods shed, 1873 by H J Sanders for the Midland Railway's Settle to Carlisle line.
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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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