Carpenters' Shop At Former Railway Yard

The Carpenters' Shop at the former railway yard, built around 1850, is a Grade II listed building that underwent some repairs and minor alterations in the 20th century. Constructed for the Great Northern Railway, it features gault brick with red brick dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has a ten-window range. Most windows are cast iron glazing bar casements with red brick segmental heads. Each side of the building is divided by pilasters into recessed bays with dentillated heads. On the yard side, the fifth bay is narrower, and the second bay has a double door, while the other bays each have a window on both floors. The street side is blank, featuring skylights and three tall, coped side wall stacks.

The gable ends have a central pilaster that divides them into two bays with dentillated heads and eaves brackets. The south gable includes a pair of half-glazed workshop doors under a cast iron lintel, with a blocked opening to the left and a round-headed cast iron casement to the right. The central gable stack is also present. The north gable features a 20th-century fire escape and a first-floor door.

Inside, the shop has wooden cross beams with paired wrought iron truss-rods set in cast iron shoes, supporting a conventional wooden floor. Each floor has partitions that enclose offices, and there is a plain wooden stair leading to the first floor. The roof is constructed with wooden queen post trusses, diagonal strutting, and a central post. This building is a specialized industrial structure for railway use, notable for its unusual constructional feature of trussed beams.