Block C: former salvage store and pattern-maker’s workshop and boundary wall, Underfall Yard

Block C, former salvage store and patternmaker’s workshop, 1906.

MATERIALS: red Cattybrook brick laid in Flemish bond; slate roof.

PLAN: rectangular on plan, forming part of the boundary of the yard at the junction of Cumberland Road and Avon Crescent.

ELEVATIONS: a two-storey building of seven bays. The building faces roughly north, and is open-sided on the ground floor, with cast iron columns and a rivetted I-beam supporting the wall above; the six left -hand bays have been infilled: two pairs with timber doors; the third pair with brick. On the first floor, windows are in segmental arched opening and have multiple lights in iron frames with top-opening casements. An external concrete stair has been built to provide access to the first floor. There is a stepped brick cornice and a pitched roof with apex lights.

The road-facing elevation is blind on the ground floor and has a row of seven windows on the first floor. The east gable has a doorway on the ground floor and two windows above. The west gable partially abuts the terrace of Avon Crescent (listed at Grade II).

INTERIOR: the ground floor storage areas are lofty spaces, with exposed painted brickwork and steel I-beams supporting the floors above. The first floor is a well-lit space with ample glazing on three elevations and the roof. It has been converted to offices and has inserted lightweight partitioning. The roof structure has bolted king post trusses and matchboarding above.

The windows retain etched graffiti by former staff: G PERRY 1948, and REES 1908.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the boundary wall to the yard is understood to date from the same period and extends eastward to Block A, the sluice house.