Description

RODBOURNE ROAD
SU 1484 SWINDON
BREL: Swindon Works
5/148
No 13 Shop (Old L2 Shop)
18.5.84
GV II*

Locomotive tender or tank shop, now machine shop. 1876. Iron framed building
with red brick exterior walls, now partly amalgamated with other later buildings.
The visible exteriors are long low frontages with arcaded treatment.
Interior: 8 rows, each of 9 cast iron columns supporting a wrought iron and
glazed roof construction. Columns are of 2 tiers, the lower heavier ones carrying
crane gantry beams and some with brackets for line shafting, but upper columns are
very short. One original 15-ton crane with timber beams and iron frontage. Four
10-ton cranes of iron construction, refurbished in steel. All were electrified
in early C20 and 4 have their original motors. A number of original fitted cranes
with swinging arms. Part of the large scale expansion of the Great Western works
in the 1870's and a good example of a factory building of the period. One of an
important group of Victorian industrial buildings at the GWR works.

Listing NGR: SU1403084977

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q99670961

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)