Description

TM 46 SW LEISTON-CUM-SIZEWELL MAIN STREET

4/37 The Long Shop
(formerly listed as The Long
Shop (formerly part of the
premises of Richard Garrett
Limited)
14.10.76

GV II*

Built as a workshop in 1853 for the manufacture of portable steam engines; now
under restoration as a museum. Red brick with yellow brick dressings; pantile
roof with 3 louvred ventilators at ridge level. Timber bell-turret at the east
end. 2-storeys. 9 bays long (the centre one wider than the others) and 3 bays
wide. The east end tripartite with central square headed entrance and arched
windows, that above the entrance longer than the 4 in the outer bays and with a
clock face in the gable above. The west end similar but altered and without a
clock. The side windows all segmental-headed. All windows with iron glazing
bars and set back within the wall surface which thus appears pilastered. The
interior has fitters' galleries at first floor level leaving an open central
well.

Listing NGR: TM4442562640

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Long Shop Museum at Wikipedia
• Long Shop Museum official website
• Wikidata Q6673237

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy