Engine Shed At Thorp Arch Station is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Railway engine shed.
Engine Shed At Thorp Arch Station
- WRENN ID
- iron-thatch-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Railway engine shed
- Source
- Historic England listing
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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