British Rail Engineering Limited Swindon Works No 20 Shop (Old R Shop) is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1984. Machine shop. 1 related planning application.

British Rail Engineering Limited Swindon Works No 20 Shop (Old R Shop)

WRENN ID
broken-pillar-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 May 1984
Type
Machine shop
Address
British Rail Engineering Limited Swindon Works No 20 Shop (Old R Shop), Rodbourne Road, Central Swindon North
OS grid reference
SU 143 849
Coordinates
51.56285, -1.79489
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 20 Shop, also known as the Old R Shop, is a machine shop that has been converted into a wheel shop. It features a mix of materials on its exterior, with some walls made of stone borrowed from earlier buildings and others constructed from contemporary brickwork. Inside, the structure is entirely made of iron, with a partly glazed roof. The shop contains three rows of cast iron columns, each consisting of 19 columns, and the roof is constructed from wrought iron. This building is part of a significant collection of Victorian industrial buildings at the Great Western Railway works.

Local climate

British Rail Engineering Limited Swindon Works No 20 Shop (Old R Shop) receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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