The Long Shop Leiston, England
Listed Building Data
The Long Shop has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1287610
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 14 October 1976
- Name
- THE LONG SHOP
- Location
- THE LONG SHOP, MAIN STREET
- Parish
- Leiston
- District
- Suffolk Coastal
- County
- Suffolk
- Grid Reference
- TM 44385 62595
- Easting
- 644385.3120
- Northing
- 262595.0210
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TM 46 SW LEISTON-CUM-SIZEWELL MAIN STREET 4/37 The Long Shop (formerly listed as The Long Shop (formerly part of the premises of Richard Garrett Limited) 14.10.76
GV II*
Built as a workshop in 1853 for the manufacture of portable steam engines; now under restoration as a museum. Red brick with yellow brick dressings; pantile roof with 3 louvred ventilators at ridge level. Timber bell-turret at the east end. 2-storeys. 9 bays long (the centre one wider than the others) and 3 bays wide. The east end tripartite with central square headed entrance and arched windows, that above the entrance longer than the 4 in the outer bays and with a clock face in the gable above. The west end similar but altered and without a clock. The side windows all segmental-headed. All windows with iron glazing bars and set back within the wall surface which thus appears pilastered. The interior has fitters' galleries at first floor level leaving an open central well.
Listing NGR: TM4442562640
