Boundary Wall to the former Carriage Lifting Shop at the GWR Works

Boundary wall, around 1870, by the Great Western Railway.

MATERIALS: rock-faced snecked Foxwood rubble with Bath stone dressings.

PLAN: the wall runs south-west to north-east and stands roughly parallel to the south-east of the main railway line. It encloses a part of the former GWR works containing a carriage lifting shop, now demolished.

EXTERIOR: the main stretch of the wall is approximately 155m long and is approximately 3m in height at the west end and rises to 6m at the east, retaining higher ground on the north side. The lower length of the wall is continuous uninterrupted masonry. Above, it has a series of inset rectangular panels with quoined jambs, with a continuous string course beneath, and chamfered lintels above, and ashlar coping stones. The wall contains two wide segmental arched openings with ashlar dressings, and there is a blocked doorway and window adjacent to the western opening which leads to a tunnel. The eastern end*, which forms a splayed entrance to the station, was rebuilt with reused stone in the 1970s with the panels omitted.

• Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), it is declared that these aforementioned features are not of special architectural or historic interest, however any works which have the potential to affect the character of the listed building as a building of special architectural or historic interest may still require LBC and this is a matter for the LPA to determine.