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Whitby Engine Shed and Engine Stable Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Whitby, North Yorkshire

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Latitude: 54.4828 / 54°28'58"N

Longitude: -0.6142 / 0°36'50"W

OS Eastings: 489884

OS Northings: 510603

OS Grid: NZ898106

Mapcode National: GBR SJ4L.TT

Mapcode Global: WHG9Y.JLR8

Plus Code: 9C6XF9MP+48

Entry Name: Whitby Engine Shed and Engine Stable Cottage

Listing Date: 18 November 1991

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1239954

English Heritage Legacy ID: 438017

ID on this website: 101239954

Location: Fishburn Park, North Yorkshire, YO21

County: North Yorkshire

District: Scarborough

Civil Parish: Whitby

Built-Up Area: Whitby

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Whitby St Mary

Church of England Diocese: York

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WHITBY
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Whitby Engine Shed and Engine Stable Cottage

(Formerly listed as The Former Engine Shed, off ESK TERRACE (east side))

II
Former engine shed, later a boat building shed. Built 1847 extended 1868 for the Whitby and Pickering Railway Company. Ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with overhanging eaves, continuous raised ventilator and single gable stack. Ashlar plinth and quoins. South front has two large round headed engine openings, with flush ashlar surrounds. That to the left with double plank doors, and that to the right now filled with brieze blocks. To the left a small, low office wing with a single door and window, both with segment heads, and a shallow pitched hipped roof with over hanging eaves. East front, eight window original range, with 10 x 12 pane glazing bar segment headed windows. Beyond to right seven window extension, with 12 x 18 pane taller glazing bar segment headed windows. Originally the extension was eight windows long, but the final bay was demolished after bomb damage. Rebuilt brick north front has two circular ventilation openings.

Interior: scissor truss roof to original section, and queen post truss roof to later extension.

Listing NGR: NZ8988410603

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