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CHURCHWARD HOUSE

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Churchward House

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Manager's office to the Great Western Railway Swindon Works. The building was originally the iron store constructed 1846 by Daniel Gooch containing in the southeast corner a suite of offices. The offices were extended in 1855-6 and in 1887. The building is of two storeys constructed of rubble with brick and ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The building was refurbished in 1989-90 and still used as offices.

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SU 14288496: Rodbourne Road, British Rail Engineering Ltd, Swindon Works, Locomotive Works Manager's Office, now private offices, grade II. 1841, extended 1855-6 and later alterations. The original part was already the manager's office in 1846 and was presumably designed, built and used by Sir Daniel Gooch. The building was used by Sturrock, Rea, Armstrong, Dean, Churchward, etc when works managers. Of interest as part of the original GWR works designed by Brunel and Gooch and opened in 1843, and extended in 1855-6. It was then altered and extended in the great expansion of the 1870's. One of an important group of Victorian industrial buildings at the GWR works.
(For full description see list.) (1)

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( 1) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

Borough of Thamesdown: Swindon, April 1986 1097 Page(s)79

( 2) John Cattell and Keith Falconer 1995 Swindon : the legacy of a railway town

Page(s)122, 146

( 3) Alan S Peck 1983 The Great Western at Swindon works

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