Description

YORK

SE5951SE QUEEN STREET
1112-1/20/896 York and North Midland Railway Co.
Workshops and Water Tank at NGR SE
5951 5144

II

Workshops and water tank, now disused. 1839, altered and
refitted in late C19. By GT Andrews for the York and North
Midland Railway Company; tank manufactured by the Walker
Foundry of Walmgate, York. Workshops of orange-red brick in
English garden-wall bond on ashlar plinth; moulded stone
cornice; slate roof, hipped at one end, with timber louvre and
brick stacks to part; cast-iron water tank.
EXTERIOR: front, originally facing railway line: 1-storey
3-bay building supports water tank; to left, lower 1-storey
5-bay attached workshop. Tank building has segment-arched
opening blocked with later brick linked by broad stone impost
band to round-arched radial-glazed window with stone sills on
each side. Sharply moulded cornice encircles building beneath
low parapet. Water tank is of cross-braced panels with central
circlets, some formerly enclosing date and manufacturer's
plates: one plate inscribed Y&NM survives. At rear,
segment-headed doorways with replacement doors, one with
overlight, flank inserted windows with timber lintels and
brick sills. Workshop front has one blocked doorway and four
windows with stone sills, all with segmental arches: rear has
original doorway with replacement door, one inserted doorway
and three original windows. Moulded cast-iron guttering forms
cornice around building. Right return: 4-panel door with
overlight and window to left, both with segment-arched heads.
Windows have small panes with iron glazing bars and central
opening panels.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: during the building of The Old Station and
former Station Hotel, Toft Green (qv) for the York and North
Midland Railway Company between 1840-41, the Company used a
temporary station outside the city walls. This building
survives from that station and as such is one of the earliest
surviving purpose-built railway structures in the country. A
plate recording manufacturer and date was removed c1993.

Listing NGR: SE5951051440

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548265

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