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Latitude: 52.5663 / 52°33'58"N
Longitude: -0.2373 / 0°14'14"W
OS Eastings: 519569
OS Northings: 297955
OS Grid: TL195979
Mapcode National: GBR HZX.0TR
Mapcode Global: WHHNK.BR6H
Plus Code: 9C4XHQ87+G3
Entry Name: Railway Engine Sheds and Workshops at National Grid Reference 196 979
Listing Date: 6 August 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1126895
English Heritage Legacy ID: 49783
ID on this website: 101126895
Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE2
County: City of Peterborough
Electoral Ward/Division: Fletton and Stanground
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Traditional County: Huntingdonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Fletton St Margaret
Church of England Diocese: Ely
Tagged with: Architectural structure
The following buildings shall be added to the list:-
PETERBOROUGH STATION ROAD
TL 19 NE
0/10001 Railway engine sheds and
workshops at NGR 196 979
GV II
Railway engine sheds and workshops. 1848 for the Great Eastern
and Midland Railway Companies. Stock brick with some stone
dressings. Slate roof with coped gable ends. Brick axial and
lateral stacks with stone cornices. Plan: Pair of large parallel
adjoining engine sheds with workshop range across the west end.
Exterior: 1 storey. The north and south sides of the engine sheds
each have eleven bays of double recessed round-arch windows, some
retaining cast-iron window frames with glazing bars, some
blocked; centre bay has narrow blind round arch in lateral stack,
the south stack truncated; 2 large entrances in east end gables
with steel girder lintels. The workshop range at west end has 9-
bay west front with large segmentally arched windows, mostly
blocked, and the centre with later porch. The workshop and south
engine shed have raised ridge ventilators with louvred sides, the
workshop range with pair of stacks at centre. Interior: timber
roof trusses, large water tank with cast-iron base. 6 tracks in
place and pits survive under concrete floor.
Note: The sheds were used jointly by the Great Eastern and
Midland Railway Companies until 1872 when the Great Eastern took
over the whole shed. Remained in railway use until the 1950s.
Listing NGR: TL1956997955
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