Former Engine Shed St. Martin's, England

Listed Building Data

Former Engine Shed 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
1157708
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
6 November 1986
Name
FORMER ENGINE SHED
Location
FORMER ENGINE SHED, RICHMONDSHIRE RECREATION CENTRE
Parish
St. Martin's
District
Richmondshire
County
North Yorkshire
Grid Reference
NZ 17750 00870
Easting
417750.0000
Northing
500870.0000

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

ST MARTINS RICHMONDSHIRE RECREATION NZ 10 SE CENTRE

4/118 Former Engine Shed

GV II

Former engine shed. c1846. By G T Andrews for George Hudson's Great North of England Railway. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof removed at time of resurvey. Single storey, 8 bays. Quoins. Quoined segmental-arched openings. Bays 1, 5 and 7 contained doorways, probably not original. Other bays had windows, now blocked and partly bricked up at front. Hipped roof; raised louvred ventilator along apex recently demolished. Rear: 8 original small-pane windows typical of G T Andrews railway architecture. Left and right returns: a large round-arched blocked engine opening nearer front, a large flat-headed opening nearer rear. Interior: central spine wall dividing building in 2 longitudinally. A floor in the front half may be an insertion. Queen-post roof. Derelict at time of resurvey. One of an important surviving group of railway buildings.

Listing NGR: NZ1775000870