Dapdune Wharf, carbide store (Wey plan 36)

Warehouse or store in yellow-brown brick with tile double-pitched roof. Rectangular plan. Flemish Bond. Front (west) elevation has large wooden double doors with single 16 light window overhead with segmental arch over. The south side has three plain vertical buttresses equi-distant along the wall, with one 16 light window with segmental hood between first and second buttresses (from west). Between second and third buttresses there is a door with a segmental concrete lintel over, surmounted by a brick segmental hood of two courses of header bricks. The north side is a blank wall with three vertical buttresses.
At the rear is a door with a simple wood porch, with a 16 light window to the south. The window has a segmental hood as the other two in this building.
Now used as offices and exhibition room. Navigation photograph collection kept in offices at the rear (east). Not shown until 1916 OS 25 map. Thought to be made c. 1916. Reused as an exhibition room since 1996, with rear office still in use.
General Description
A simple warehouse built in the early 200h century to store carbide awaiting transportation on the canal. It is now used as offices and exhibition room.
External Description
The store is rectangular and built of yellow-brown brick laid in a Flemish bond with a tile double-pitched roof. The Front (west) elevation has large wooden double doors with single 16 light window overhead set under a segmental arch. The south side has three plain vertical buttresses set equi-distant along the wall, with one 16 light window with a segmental hood between the first and second buttresses (from west). Between second and third buttresses there is a door, with a segmental concrete lintel, surmounted by a brick segmental hood of two courses of header bricks. The north side is a blank wall with three vertical buttresses. At the rear is a door with a simple wooden porch, with a 16 light window to the south. The window has a segmental hood similar to the other windows in this building.
Internal Description
The structure is now divided in to two with a small office to the rear (east) and an exhibition space to the west. The central area is separately entered and sealed. It is likely that the store has always been divided in to a store and office but that the subdivision of the main store to create a separate central room is a later event. The Office has a low ceiling but the rest of the store is open to the roof. The roof structure consists of a king post and with two purlins on each side supported by raking struts. The struts supporting the lower purlins spring from the tie beams whilst those supporting the upper purlins spring from the king post. There is also a third set of intermediate raking struts springing from the king post.
Associated Buildings
1 Wharf cottage lies to the south of the store and the Engine shed to the north. Both are the subjects of separate reports
Landscape Impact
High as the building is the principal exhibition centre Dapdune.
Historical Analysis
The structure is first shown on the 1914 OS 25 map (sheet xxiii 16) so must have been built between this year and the last survey of 1912.
Victorian Post Medieval 20th Century

Metadata

ARIADNE ID
13978124
Original ID
1769038
Language
English
Resource type
Sites and monuments databases or inventories
Original Subject
  • CANAL WAREHOUSE
Dating
  • 1916 – 1900
  • 1837 – 1900 , Victorian
  • 1540 – 1900 , Post Medieval
  • 1901 – 2000 , 20th Century
Place
  • England [-0.578111, 51.242805]
Type
Dataset
Publisher
  • Archaeology Data Service [Organization]
Issued
Modified

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Contributor
  • National Trust [Organization]
Identifier
http://registry.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/dataset/13978124
Package ID
3412
Provider ID
1104

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