NHER 32997 (Building record) - The Carriages, (formerly Glenholme), Kerdiston

Collection of railway vehicles used as house.
Two carriages, identified as East London railway stock about 1870 later used by Great Eastern Railway and withdrawn in 1923, joined by hallway to form house. Goods van of about 1880 added at one end. Doors, signs, windows, and so on all preserved. House thought to have been built soon after 1923.
In garden a derelict 1890 Great Eastern carriage.
See (S1)in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 22 October 1997.

(S1) corrects the above information, stating that one of the two carriages used in the house is of 1899 to 1905 and the other of early 1890, both in fact built by the Great Eastern at Stratford and used on eastern suburban lines (not East London Railway).
(S1) notes the house was in fact built in the 1930s.

December 2005.
Site visit confirms this account as the carriage dated to 1890 has in fact a Stratford Works plate to that effect. It is relatively unusual to see carriages used as housing which still retain all of the underframe minus the bogies. Little now remains of the goods van as one side was removed to add a brick extension in around 2000. The derelict carriage loose in the garden mentioned in (S2) vanished at some date before the present owners arrived. Proposal to replace the carriages with a new house and to give them to the North Norfolk Railway for spare parts.
E. Rose (NLA), 20 December 2005.

Photographic record by landowner in file (S5)