Bridlington Victorian goods shed listed as new architect saves it from demolition

Yorkshire Post

A local architect has succeeded in getting a Victorian goods shed listed. It's one of only a few hundred in the country that still survive, and was threatened with demolition when the council sold it last year.  Tony Johnson speaks to Geremy Britton.

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00:00 Hi, I'm Jeremy Dixon and Associates, we're an architectural consultant based in Bridlington.

00:06 Recently we saw a property, this one behind me, come up for sale by Striden of Yorkshire

00:11 Council and as I'm in the property business I had a read and I noticed in there that they're

00:18 actually looking at potentially supporting the demolition of this building as part of

00:23 the sale of that land and that's just something that didn't quite resonate right with me and

00:29 it seemed to be that there was no policy protection for the building, it wasn't listed, it wasn't

00:34 in any conservation area and therefore I thought to myself that we should put this in for a

00:41 listed building application to potentially list it.

00:45 Not something that we've done before but we put something together, we sent it off to

00:49 Heritage England and just over a year later, the timescale was really quite something,

00:56 they actually came back and said that this building can be listed, it's 180 years old

01:01 and they dated it to the 1840s, it's had a number of uses over the years, obviously built

01:07 as a goods shed and obviously now it was threatened with demolition as part of the sale by Striden

01:13 of Yorkshire Council.

01:15 We had no idea the potential use of the site going forward and we're very concerned that

01:20 it would be demolished and the loss of that building to this particular area, right in

01:25 front of Bridlington train station, it would be really a cry in shame.

01:31 So as I say, coming back to a whole year of waiting, it was finally granted just last

01:35 week Grade 2 listed status and that will mean that the building will now be conserved and

01:41 it will mean that any further changes to it will be closely monitored by East Striden

01:45 of Yorkshire Council so it does get the protection that it deserved and hopefully I'm looking

01:50 forward to seeing how it's going to transform.

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