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Description: Great Northern Shed (south side) Great Northern Shed

Address: Great Northern Shed South Parade Halifax West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Off South Parade (east side)

Full description:
Railway engine shed. Built 1885 for the Lancashire and Yorkshire and Great Northern Railway Companies. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. 2 storey curved east front 10 bays, each bay topped by a shallow gable with a pilaster between and a thick first floor band. The ground floor has a pair of metal frame glazing bar windows to each bay. North front 5 bays, with engine openings below, one masked by a single storey office wing with chimney stack, and above 5 metal frame glazing bar windows, one replaced by a fire door. The west front, 10 bays, also topped by shallow gables with pilasters between and a thick first floor band. The ground floor has a pair of metal frame glazing bar windows to each bay, with above the scar of the original engine canopy and above again pairs of segment headed metal frame windows. South front 5 bays, with single window then 3 engine openings, and then to the right a 2 storey 4-bay office wing.