Explosives Store is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1998. Store.
Explosives Store
- WRENN ID
- brooding-entrance-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1998
- Type
- Store
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST42NE 1090/6/10001
LONG SUTTON MONDAY'S COURT LANE Explosives Store
II
Small explosives store. Probably mid to late C19. Coursed and squared blue lias limestone rubble facing with a now partly exposed brick roof core. Characteristic arched construction for an explosives store. Central entrance with small wing walls leading to a small chamber, additional chamber on the left. Square headed doorways with stone lintels, the left hand one much lower. Roofs of red brick with most of the external core now gone. HISTORY: Said to have been built as the explosives store for the building of the Great Western Railway's nearby Somerton tunnel which was the principal engineering work on the cut-off line from Castle Cary to Taunton opened in 1906, which has formed the main route to the West-of- England since that date. SOURCE: Information from Mr Redvers Burt, a long time resident of Long Sutton, whose father worked as a navy on the tunnel.
Listing NGR: ST4667626996
Detailed Attributes
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.