Description

In the entry for:

IRON WHARF
TR 06 SW
'The Big Building'
4/220 (Warehouse immediately
north east of Standard House)
- II

the address shall be amended to read:

TR 06 SW IRON WHARF
4/220 Oyster Bay House
- II

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The following building shall be added to the list:
IRON WHARF
1.
1103
TR 06 SW 4/220 'The Big Building'
(Warehouse immediately
north east of Standard
House)
II

Warehouse. Circa mid C19, said to have been built circa 1843 when the creek
was improved. Buff-coloured stock brick. Welsh slate roof with gabled ends
and brick dentil eaves cornice. Plan: Rectangular on plan. Its north end
to the creek has a hoist and a doorway at each floor for loading/unloading.
There is also a hoist and doorway at each floor level at the opposite south
end. Exterior: 3 storeys, the second storey partly in the roof space. 5-
bay east and west sides and 3-bay north and south ends, the bays divided by
brick pilasters, those at the ends clasping the corners. Segmental brick arch
openings with original 16-pane cast-iron windows which have bosses at the inter-
sections of the glazing bars. There is a doorway on the ground floor at right
of the west side with an original door and a wider doorway at the centre of
the east side. The gable ends have a central doorway on each floor with plank
double doors, the ground floor doorway on the south end enlarged later and
on the gables at both ends a weatherboarded timber-framed hoist housing containing
old hoist mechanisms; the hoist housing at the north end rises above the main
roof level. Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TR0212462038

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533249

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