Former Vivian locomotive shed is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 February 1996. Locomotive shed.

Former Vivian locomotive shed

WRENN ID
rusted-pediment-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 February 1996
Type
Locomotive shed
Source
Cadw listing

Description

A narrow, single-storey building, one bay deep and nine bays long. The shed is constructed of red and grey brick, with a metal truss roof. There are nine saw tooth gables providing north-facing rooflights with ventilators at their centres. Each gable has a circular ventilation window with red brick dressings. The bays are divided into panels of grey bricks (made at the copperworks), with a plinth, piers, corbelled string course and gable cornices of red brick. White glazed bricks in seven panels pick out letters more than a metre high to refer to the function of the building as Vivian and Son engine shed: 'V & S Ltd No1 SHED'. There are wide square openings at either end, formerly with wooden doors, for access by locomotives.

The interior is open for its full length and wide enough for one railway track. There are remains of timber dividers placed laterally in the roof gables to carry steam from the locomotives to the central parts of the roof for ventilating. A service pit runs the length of the building in the centre of the floor.

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