Former Gas House St. Martin's, England

Listed Building Data

Former Gas House 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
1131549
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
6 November 1986
Name
FORMER GAS HOUSE
Location
FORMER GAS HOUSE, RICHMONDSHIRE RECREATION CENTRE
Parish
St. Martin's
District
Richmondshire
County
North Yorkshire
Grid Reference
NZ 17786 00830
Easting
417786.0000
Northing
500830.0000

Listed Building Description

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ST MARTINS RICHMONDSHIRE RECREATION NZ 10 SE CENTRE

4/117 Former Gas House

GV II

Former gas house. c1846. By G T Andrews for George Hudson's Great North of England Railway. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. Single storey, 3 bays. Quoins. 3 tall round-arched quoined openings with ashlar voussoirs giving impression of arcade. Central opening with board doors. Outer openings double-arched, with glazing in tympana above recessed rubble blocking. Hipped roof with raised louvred ventilator along apex. Interior: to left, 2 round-arched furnaces of burnt bricks. The gas house served the station complex only, being on the other side of the river from the town of Richmond's gasworks. The chimney has been demolished, and the building was derelict at the time of resurvey. One of an important surviving group of railway buildings.

Listing NGR: NZ1778600830