| Description | Calder and Hebble Navigation Warehouse, Wakefield. Canal warehouse originating c.1790.
'Two warehouses, c.1790, converted to a single warehouse 1816. Built for the Calder and Hebble Navigation Co. Coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and stone slate roofs. 4 storeys and attic. River front has 7 window facade, divided 3:1:3 with central linking single window section over canal dock and original gabled 3 window warehouse to either side. Present facade remodelled 1816. Central round arched opening to canal dock has rusticated archway with C20 blue brick walling. Above tall recessed arch through upper floors with single tripartite window to each floor, the top one with a Diocletian window. Either side slightly projecting 3 window wings 4 storey plus attic with central recessed arch rising full height into the gable pediments. Each floor has segmental headed central taking in doorways with double doors and flanking small windows with iron glazing bars. Pediments have single taking in doorways now blocked with tiny round headed openings above. Similar west facade has boarded windows with repaired central upper floor section now rendered with inserted iron girder. North and south, side facades each have 5 original stone mullion windows in flush ashlar surrounds to lower 2 floors, some converted to doorways. Above 2 floors added 1816 have 9 boarded windows with segmental heads. Iron hoist mechanism at south west corner.
INTERIOR has massive wooden beams and cross beams supported on square wooden piers and later circular iron columns. Internal walls of original two warehouses survive with rows of arches inserted. Original wooden staircases survive and 3 separate original roofs with queen post roof structure'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 30/03/1971. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1242353. Web site accessed 11/11/2013).
The Calder and Hebble Navigation Warehouse was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Peter Thornborrow (WYAS) c.1990. The photographic images produced by the assessment are held by WYAAS (Thornborrow, P.H. (WYAS). c.1990).
A building recording of part of the warehouse was undertaken in by Martin Cook in 2002. This rapid written, drawn and photographic survey was undertaken at the request of British Waterways prior to a course of maintenance work to repair part of the roof. The specification was provided by Helen Gomersal (WYAS). The report which contains copies of photographic prints and annotated drawings is held by WYAAS.
The report describes the warehouse as originally two separate, identical buildings built either side of a basin on the River Calder around 1790. These were roofed with a series of large identical king post trusses. The gap between the two warehouses was floored and roofed over to form a single structure. To accomplish this a smaller king post roof truss was inserted between adjacent pairs of original trusses. This has the effect of creating two gullies running longitudinally along the length of the warehouse situated above the curtain walls of the warehouses adjacent to the basin. The report is concerned with the construction of these gullies and subsequent modification to existing roof structures, making comparison to other local canal company structures.
(Cook, M. 2002. 'Building recording (recording part of the roof structure) at Navigation Warehouse, Wakefield Waterfront, Wakefield'). |