Building record 7946/1 - Cheshire Lines Committee Warehouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58867 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

1873. Brick, two storeys, large rectangle, with hipped roof behind parapet. Five segmental headed windows on upper level with "Chinese" glazing, pilasters between, and larger end pilasters. Top cornice on brackets. Ground floor has large openings, and cornice supported on slender iron columns.

<2> Minnis J & Hickman S, 2016, The Railway Goods Shed and Warehouse in England, p.63 (Book). SCH8250.

‘The Cheshire Lines Committee warehouse at Warrington (1897) made full use of the advertising possibilities offered on its façade to promote the three companies that went to make up the CLC: the GCR, the GNR and the MR. The building, which is now converted to apartments, is an example of an ostensibly utilitarian structure, built relatively late, which still made extensive use of ornament. The proportions were also carefully handled, with effective repetition of elements along the lengthy symmetrical façade and the breaking of the advertisement panels by openings for hoists (now converted to windows).’

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1907-8, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Lancashire, SJ6088, 1907 (Maps and Plans). SCH7233.

First depiction of the building. Built on the site of a goods platform depicted on the earlier OS map (see 4). Depicts a new arrangment of sidings, with three passing through the goods shed. The building is labelled Goods Shed. Dotted lines suggest the location of awnings on the northern and southern sides of the building.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1893-96, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Lancashire, SJ6088, 1893-4 (Maps and Plans). SCH3847.