Building record 2468/1/5 - LNWR Trackside Goods Shed

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 55533 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Formerly goods shed now lorry maintenance bay: c.1900 for LNWR. Weather boarded, Lakeland green slate and partly glazed roof. One octagonal brick chimney with stone dressings. Rectangular building, where from each long side springs a canopy, formerly over a siding. These have a fringe of tongued wooden pieces. Behind canopies are pairs of large sliding wooden doors at platform level. North side has pair of hinged doors and south end small access door approached by steps.

Interior: Single large room with office in the corner. Kingpost roof trusses.

An unusually well preserved and rare example of a local goods shed, formerly widespread.

<2> Holt, G.O., 1978, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Volume 10, the North West, p.45-46 (Book). SCH107.

<3> Minnis J & Hickman S, 2016, The Railway Goods Shed and Warehouse in England, p.28-9 & p.46-7 (Book). SCH8250.

The LNWR also favoured the trackside type of shed for smaller yards by the beginning of the twentieth century and these could be constructed of timber for matters of economy. Trackside goods sheds ’… were small sheds, placed alongside a siding with no track running within the building. Instead, there was often a loading platform in timber or brick alongside the siding between it and the building or, alternatively, the wagon may have been unloaded directly into the shed. Some such sheds had a canopy extending over the wagon to keep those carrying out unloading operations dry and, in some instances, an equivalent canopy on the other side for the cart loading. A design of this type, which had the roof extended on both sides to form canopies and an interior lit only by a roof light, was favoured by the LNWR in the late 1890s and early 1900s….a well-preserved example remains at Waverton (1898)’.