Description

LONDON STREET
SU 1484 NE SWINDON
(north side)
6/119 Carriage works No. 8 shop
GV II
Carriage works, now industrial workshops. 1870-72 for GWR, extended to
east 1872-3. Rock-faced snecked Foxwood rubble with Bath stone
quoins, strings and window dressings. Slate roofs with apex
glazing and ventilation cowls. Street elevation of 15 bays in 5
groups of 3, 2 storeys. Ground floor arcaded windows with
segmental heads and corniced keystones on cast iron columns. First
floor brick segmental window heads, also with corniced keystones
and multiple pivot lights. Glazed doors to ground level. East
facade splayed.
Internally, ground level iron joists on cast iron columns carrying
brick segmental vaults. Upper floor 8 bays of cast iron round
section keeled stanchions, lugged at storey heights, carrying I-
section plates and light steel angle trusses. 6 spans. Similar
intermediate columns on external side walls. Wall to London Street
extended left with ground floor glazed accommodation to No. 7 shop
(q.v.).

Listing NGR: SU1459284965

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26572375

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey