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Remove as Building of Local Interest: Snow Hill Railway ‘Building’, La Route de St Aubin, St Helier.

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A decision made (30/03/2009) regarding: Remove as Building of Local Interest: Snow Hill Railway ‘Building’, La Route de St Aubin, St Helier.

Decision Ref:

MD-PE-2009-0044 

Subject:

Register for Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey: Snow Hill Railway ‘Building’, La Route de St Aubin, St Helier

Decision Summary Title:

DS - Remove as Building of Local Interest: Snow Hill Railway ‘Building’, La Route de St Aubin, St Helier

DS Author:

Assistant Director: Policy and Projects

DS Date:

21 February 2009

DS Status:

Public

Written Report Title:

WR – Remove as Building of Local Interest: Snow Hill Railway ‘Building’, La Route de St Aubin, St Helier

WR Author:

Head of Historic Buildings, Jersey Heritage

WR Date

17 February 2009

WR Status:

Public

Oral Rapporteur:

Head of Historic Buildings, Jersey Heritage

Decision(s):

The Assistant Minister for Planning and Environment determined her intention to Remove as Building of Local Interest the Snow Hill Railway ‘Building’, La Route de St Aubin, St Helier.

Reason(s) for Decision:

Any intention to Retain as a Building of Local Interest the Snow Hill Railway ‘Building’, La Route de St Aubin, St Helier would not be in accordance with the existing criteria for assessment and designation of historic buildings

Legal and Resource Implications:

The inclusion of buildings and places in the Register for Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey is consistent with the purposes of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002.

Action required:

Serve Notice of Intent to Remove from the Register

Signature:

 

Date of SMT approval:

 

Position:

Assistant Minister for Planning and Environment

Date Signed:

 

Date of Decision (If different to Date Signed):

 

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Remove as Building of Local Interest: Snow Hill Railway ‘Building’, La Route de St Aubin, St Helier.

Register for Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey  

Snow Hill Railway ‘Building’, La Route de St Aubin, St Helier  
 

This report has been prepared by Jersey Heritage as part of its responsibility under a Service Level Agreement to provide reports and recommendations to the Minister for Planning and Environment on the architectural, historical and archaeological significance of buildings and sites. 

The assessment and recommendation are made in accordance with the existing criteria for assessment and designation of historic buildings. The report includes the views and advice offered by the Ministerial Registration and Listing Advisory Group. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Author of report: Roger Hills BA(Hons) MA DipBldgCons (RICS) IHBC Head of Historic Buildings  

Date of report: 17 February 2009 

File ref: HE1638 
 

Current status  

Currently registered as a BLI. 

Relevant interests of the site (see assessment form)  

Historic interest  

Two end pieces of the 1897 platform shelter that stood at Snow Hill Railway Station. It is understood that the architectural elements of the former platform shelter were re-located by Claude Poingdestre to his garden in the late 1930s – the owner having worked for the Jersey Eastern Railway and based at Snow Hill. 

Architectural interest  

The building in question is a timber shed / garage that incorporate the 2 end pieces of the 1897 platform shelter that stood at Snow Hill Railway Station – specifically a pair of cast iron arches with decorative columns and spandrels, timber bargeboards and a detached timber glazing frame. The lower sections of the columns have either been cut off or sunk into the ground when the shed was constructed. Other parts of the platform shelter are at the Pallot Steam Museum. The remainder of the shed is a hotchpotch of 20th century timber, blockwork and corrugated iron – none of which appears to be related to the original railway structure and is of no interest. 

Advice offered by MRLAG (and others if stated)  

MRLAG discussed the site at its meeting on 9 February 2009. It was agreed that the pieces of the former railway building are of interest and should be preserved. It was debated whether the surviving parts can be considered as a registered building and members concluded that the structure should remain as a BLI to ensure its future protection.    

Jersey Heritage recommendation  

The structure under consideration includes re-used and re-located parts of an 1897 railway building. Although these fragments of the building are in themselves of historical interest and should be preserved (perhaps in a museum context), it is proposed that they do not meet the criteria for the registration of historic buildings and that it would be inappropriate to secure their future via historic building legislation and policy. It is therefore proposed that the railway structure should be removed from the register. 

Justification relating to criteria  

It is proposed that the fragments of the railway building present at the site do not satisfy the criteria for registration which state, “Buildings included in the Register are those which substantially retain their historic form and detail, or sufficient for that form and detail to be readily recovered from surviving evidence, and so make a significant and positive contribution to the architectural and historical identity, character and amenity of Jersey.” 

Attachments

Location plan

Photographs, January 2009

Board of Trustees

Chairman Clive Jones  Vice-Chairman:  Philip Le Brocq

Rowland Anthony, Geoffrey Crill, Connétable Simon Crowcroft, Blair Gould, Paul Nicolle, Jonathan Voak

 

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