Former Stables And Forge, Joliffe Yard

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TQ 25 SE MERSTHAM LONDON ROAD NORTH (east side, off) 23/272

Former stables and forge, Joliffe Yard GV II

Forge and stables, now garage. C1809, altered. Pinkish brick with some red brick dressings and some weatherboard; Welsh slate roof. Long 1 and 2-storey range, with flat-roofed additions at either end not of special interest. On left are 3 large, full-height, basket-arched entrances with red-brick arches and later boarding and board doors. Right-hand section, slightly recessed, has pilaster butresses, a wide doorway with board door inserted between 2 of these on right, with top of another pilaster and a 2-light window above; to its left a segmental- arched 2-light window with vents in diamond pattern above; a blocked segmental- arched opening on far left; and a single-flue stack in front roof pitch. This building was erected as part of the terminus of the Surrey Iron Railway which was a plateway for horse-drawn waggons which ran between Wandsworth and Merstham. The railway was sanctioned by Parliament in 1803 and the Merstham end was officially opened in 1805. This building is of historic interest in being a rare survival from the earliest days of railway-building construction.

Listing NGR: TQ2911654244