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Engine Shed at Thorp Arch Station

A Grade II Listed Building in Thorp Arch, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.9134 / 53°54'48"N

Longitude: -1.3342 / 1°20'3"W

OS Eastings: 443830

OS Northings: 446561

OS Grid: SE438465

Mapcode National: GBR MR35.YX

Mapcode Global: WHDB1.GWWT

Plus Code: 9C5WWM78+88

Entry Name: Engine Shed at Thorp Arch Station

Listing Date: 8 February 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1319986

English Heritage Legacy ID: 342028

ID on this website: 101319986

Location: Thorp Arch, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS23

County: Leeds

Civil Parish: Thorp Arch

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Thorp-Arch All Saints

Church of England Diocese: York

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Description



SE44NW THORP ARCH
LS23

2/106 Engine shed at Thorp
Arch Station

GV II

Railway engine shed, now disused. Probably c1850 for the York and North
Midland Railway Company. Ashlar gritstone dressings to coursed, squared
magnesian limestone walling; Welsh slate roof. 1 storey; 3 x 2-bay shed
extended to south-east by an open-sided 2 x 2-bay canopy and with a small,
lower projection at north-west end. Side facing line (now removed) has an
infilled round archway with impost band forming sill to lunette on each side;
canopy on left has cast-iron columns with fretted braces beneath a boarded
frieze; hipped roof. Rear: shed has boarded round-arched opening flanked by
bricked-up, round-arched openings. Left return: boarded doors to round-
arched train openings with lunette between. Right return: central projection
has door and sash and has hipped roof flanked by blocked round archways.
Situated on the Church Fenton to Spofforth line opened 1847 and linked to
Harrogate the following year. A similar engine shed survives incomplete at
Wetherby (see under York Road).


Listing NGR: SE4383046561

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