Carriage Works No 7 Shop

LONDON STREET SU 1484 NE SWINDON (north side) 6/120 Carriage works No. 7 shop GV II

Carriage works, now industrial workshops. 1870-80 for GWR. Rock-faced snecked Fox's wood rubblewith Bath stone quoins, strings and window dressings. Slate roofs with apex glazing and ventilation cowls. Street elevation of 15 bays in 5 groups of 3, 2 storeys, ground on cast iron columns. First floor brick segmental window heads, also with corniced keystones and multiple pivot lights. Glazed doors to ground level. Internally; ground level iron joists on cast iron columns, carrying brick segmental vaults. Upper floor 8 bays of cast iron round section keeled stanchions, lugged at storey heights and carrying I- section plates and light steel angle trusses. 6 panes. Similar columns placed intermediate on external side walls. Wall to London Street adjoins No. 8 shop to right and trimming shop on Emlyn Square on left.

Listing NGR: SU1451884915