Listed Building record TR 15 NW 1224 - GOODS SHED AT CANTERBURY WEST RAILWAY STATION

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5273 STATION ROAD WEST
Goods Shed at Canterbury West Railway Station TR 15 NW 2/615
II GV
2. Goods shed. Circa 1860; later alterations and extensions. Red brick; altered and extended in yellow brick. Corrugated asbestos roof. Both east and west elevations originally each with six semi-circular lights at the top of tall blind arches, three to each side of central wide segmentally arched blind opening. West elevation little altered, but east elevation altered with later doors; C19 or early C20 railway valance canopy. North and south gable ends each with two wide segmental entries, three of these four entries with boarded doors, and north gable with boarded canopy over centre loading bay. Single storey extension on south with hipped concrete tile roof; sash windows in side elevations; south or entrance elevation with SASH window to left hand and flight of stone and brick steps leading ap sideways to right hand half glazed door.
Listing NGR: TR1462058440

Description from record TR 15 NW 802:
There is reason to think that spaces under the concrete floor of the Goods Shed (now a farmers’ market) beside Canterbury West Station provided air-raid shelter accommodation during the Second World War. A contributor to the BBC’s ‘People’s War’ Online project recalled: there were many air-raids and we had to sit under the subway at Canterbury East Station for hours while they were on, but eventually they built a shelter under the warehouse. These premises were situated next to the station with their own siding.’ There would clearly have been room for such accommodation somewhere under the high, concrete floor of the shed, but is not yet clear exactly where. Assuming this provision was official, it was probably not made until at least 1942, possibly later.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential :
Condition : unknown
Date of visit :

Edna Jean Smith, Contribution to BBC People’s War online project (Digital archive). SKE14890.

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.