Cordite Press House known as L134

Cordite Press House, known as L134, is a cordite press house built around 1915 and modified in the 1950s. It is made of yellow brick laid in English Bond and features a felted roof.

The building is a single-storey, 10 bay linear structure aligned north-south. The original 1915 construction had 8 bays, with 1950s additions adding 1 bay to both the north and south. The west elevation has extensive timber casement windows lighting each bay, while the east elevation features a lean-to timber corridor with a pent roof supported by a steel frame. This corridor is believed to have been open to the east in 1915 but was infilled during the 1950s. The roof has metal vents, one for each bay.

Inside, the external and brick partition walls are rendered. Each of the eight bays contained a cordite press powered by hydraulics, with each press having its own metal roof vent. The roof structure includes metal roof trusses with raking shores, extending beyond the east wall of each bay to form the corridor roof. The rear wall of the bays consists of brick and timber partitions between corbelled brick piers, with extensive glazing and access doors from the corridor. Most bays retain pipe-work for hydraulic power and parquet flooring, but no equipment related to cordite production remains.

The attached building at the rear, known as L166, which connects L134 to L137, is not included in the listing.