Granary Complex, King’s Cross Goods Yard (East and West
Handyside Canopies, Laser Building and Granary Complex Walls), London
NW1 TQ 30169 83608, TQ 30260 83602, TQ 30221 83587, TQ 30074 83556
PCA Ltd (Tom O’Gorman) historic building recording Jan-Dec
2008 King’s Cross General Partner Limited KXF07
Work continued on the Grade II listed Complex, within the Regent’s
Canal Conservation Area. The Granary Complex comprised the Granary,
the E and W Transit Sheds (with accompanying below ground stables),
the Train Assembly Shed, and the E and W Granary Offices. All of
these buildings, apart from the E and W Offices, were built in 1852
as part of Lewis Cubitt’s design for the King’s Cross
Goods Yard. The E and W Offices were added between 1865 and 1871.
The buildings handled incoming and outgoing goods, particularly
grain, from the N of England, and facilitated the transport of goods
to the markets of London via the Regent’s Canal and by road.
The E and W Handyside Canopies in the King’s Cross Goods Yard
were constructed in 1888 against the E and W walls of the Midland
Goods Shed respectively, and fall within the curtilage of the Grade
II listed Granary. Both roofs were designed by the Great Northern
Railway’s engineer Richard Johnson, and were fabricated by
the well-known ironworking firm of Andrew Handyside & Co. of
Derby. The Canopies provided covered areas for unloading fish, potatoes,
and other perishable traffic directly from railway vans into road
vehicles, while continuing to give roadway access to the goods sheds
on either side of the Goods Yard and beyond it. The 19th c Granary
Complex Walls, within the King’s Cross Goods Yard, lie to
the W of the Complex and act as a retaining wall for the higher
level roadway immediately to their E. The Laser Building was built
between 1921 and 1942, after the removal of the Gas Works Viaduct.
It acted as a mess room for the Goods Yard’s employees. Both
building and walls are not listed, but they lie within the Regent’s
Canal Conservation Area and an E.H. level 4 record was therefore
undertaken prior to their demolition or refurbishment.
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