Description

OFF GREAT NORTHERN ROAD
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5170 (North side)
SK 3436 SE Railway Warehouse
4/1
II GV

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Railway Warehouse built for the Great Northern Railway at their Friargate Station.
1877-8 by Kirk & Randall of Sleaford. Red brick and Welsh slate and glazed roofs with
three brick stacks to east. Unusual plan of rectangular warehouse with triangular
office block with a mezzanine floor, to the east. Two and three storeys, over a
basement. Double chamfered plinth, moulded corbelled eaves cornice. South elevation
of twenty-one bays divided into groups of three by giant pilaster strips. The centre
bay has a segmental arched entrance, otherwise the ground floor has segment headed
windows with metal casements. Similar windows above except for two bays with double
doors and two bays with bracketed out timber hoist structures under oversailing
gables, one partly demolished. West elevation of 1-4-1 bays with mostly segment headed
windows and a large tripartite railway entrance under riveted box girder. Bays
one and five step forward. North elevation is similar to the south, but of 27 bays.The
east end forms part of the offices and has three storeys with six segment headed
sashes to each floor. Rounded corner to acute north east angle, with tripartite
arrangement of sashes to each floor. South east elevation of 2-2-5-2-2 bays. The
outer pairs have two segment headed windows to three floors. The centre five bays
have similar windows above a large opening under a riveted box girder. The office
block with rounded acute angle was built to front onto the proposed approach road from
Friary Street to Friargate Station.

Listing NGR: SK3457136199

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26523926

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)