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Latitude: 53.5203 / 53°31'13"N
Longitude: -1.1421 / 1°8'31"W
OS Eastings: 456980
OS Northings: 402971
OS Grid: SE569029
Mapcode National: GBR NWGQ.KS
Mapcode Global: WHDD2.FSD3
Plus Code: 9C5WGVC5+45
Entry Name: Main Engine Shop to Rear of Original Plant Works Building at Doncaster Station
Listing Date: 5 September 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1151419
English Heritage Legacy ID: 335033
ID on this website: 101151419
Location: Hyde Park, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN4
County: Doncaster
Electoral Ward/Division: Town
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Doncaster
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Doncaster St Jude Hexthorpe
Church of England Diocese: Sheffield
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TOWN OF DONCASTER HEXTHORPE ROAD
SE 50 SE (east side)
3/38 Main engine shop to rear
of original Plant Works
building at Doncaster
Station
GV II
Original erecting shops and boiler shop, now main machine shop. 1853 with later
additions c1860s for Great Northern Railway. Dark red brick with brick and stone
dressings and corrugated plastic roof. Tall single-storey throughout. Erecting
shops to north, 15 bays long and 3 wide gabled bays across, wider infill bay to
south with double gabled boiler shop, beyond of 13 bays long. Later additions to
end and sides not of special interest. Side elevations of erecting shops have
continuous ashlar sill band and bays articulated by brick pilasters with friezes
and cornices supporting simple entablature with dentilled cornice. Each bay has
tall segmental-headed window with small pane metal casement windows. End elevation
to north-west has large segmental-arched window to central bay and three segmental-
headed small-pane metal casements above inserted doorways to side bays. Opposite
elevation has been rendered and has similar arrangement of pilasters and arched
windows as side elevation, also sunken panels to gables. Central bay has wide
segmental arched opening, now glazed. Later infill bay and boiler shop, . all built
in similar style with pilasters, arched windows and gabled fronts. Interior of
erecting shops and boiler shop, have their original arcades with round arches on
massive brick piers with stone impost blocks. All roofs are C20. Listed partly
for historic interest, as the place where some of the most innovative locomotives
were built. Source: 'History of the Dcncaster Plant works from 1853 to the prese5Lt .
day', by J E Day 1953'.
Listing NGR: SE5698002971
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