Old Railway Shed Depot, Approximately 30 Metres South East of New Fire Station is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. A C19 Railway shed.

Old Railway Shed Depot, Approximately 30 Metres South East of New Fire Station

WRENN ID
patient-chimney-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1985
Type
Railway shed
OS grid reference
SE 106 393
Coordinates
53.85054, -1.83931
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Railway Shed Depot, located approximately 30 meters southeast of the New Fire Station, is a railway shed depot built in the mid-19th century for the Midland Railway. It is constructed from thin-coursed hammer-dressed stone and features a Welsh blue-slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has 13 first-floor windows, all of which are segmental-arched and have voussoirs. The ground floor includes three wide doorways and nine windows, all protected by a timber canopy that has two gable hoists. The first floor contains 13 smaller windows, with five situated between the hoists. The rear of the building has 15 bays of windows, with the ground floor windows being longer. There is a stack on the right gable and three roof lights on either pitch. Overall, it is a large and fairly complete railway shed.

Local climate

Old Railway Shed Depot, Approximately 30 Metres South East of New Fire Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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