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Latitude: 52.026 / 52°1'33"N
Longitude: -2.3165 / 2°18'59"W
OS Eastings: 378378
OS Northings: 236449
OS Grid: SO783364
Mapcode National: GBR 0GM.WPL
Mapcode Global: VH93J.SBPP
Plus Code: 9C4V2MGM+C9
Entry Name: Tracks End
Listing Date: 8 October 2004
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1391155
English Heritage Legacy ID: 491939
ID on this website: 101391155
Location: Birts Street, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, WR13
County: Worcestershire
District: Malvern Hills
Civil Parish: Birtsmorton
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Birtsmorton and Hollybush
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/08/2019
1430/0/10013
08-OCT-04
BIRTSMORTON
BIRTS STREET
Tracks End
(Formerly listed as Providence Bungalow)
II
House. Early C20. Single storey. A pair of railway coaches of painted metal and timber are arranged parallel to each other on a concrete platform and joined by a shallow structure of brick with external stacks flanked by small casement windows. This forms a narrow central room off which open the inner carriage doors, the carriages divided to create two rooms. Timber-framed gables and slate roof with brick end stacks.
Carriages form the whole back and front elevations and the curved ends with vertical panels appear intact in the gable ends. The basic structure of each carriage is intact comprising five units, each of a door flanked by windows; in both front and back elevations a traditional wooden house door has replaced the carriage door and one window at centre. Louvre ventilators above each carriage door, moulded surrounds to the carriage windows, clerestory sections reputedly obscured by eaves and gutter, panelled bodywork, door hinges still extant. On the internal side of the carriages, the windows have been painted out but the basic structure is intact and shows a construction of horizontal timber boarding.
This is a well-preserved example of a type of cheap housing which was formed by adapting C19 railway carriages to create housing in the early C20. Only one other example of a house incorporating two carriages has been listed.
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