Description

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

External Links

• Wikidata Q26444260

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