FORMER HYDRAULIC POWER STATION IN GROUNDS OF CITY COLLEGE

FORMER HYDRAULIC POWER STATION IN GROUNDS OF CITY COLLEGE, WATER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254724
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1992
List Entry Name:: FORMER HYDRAULIC POWER STATION IN GROUNDS OF CITY COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: FORMER HYDRAULIC POWER STATION IN GROUNDS OF CITY COLLEGE, WATER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254724
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1992
List Entry Name:: FORMER HYDRAULIC POWER STATION IN GROUNDS OF CITY COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER HYDRAULIC POWER STATION IN GROUNDS OF CITY COLLEGE, WATER STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER HYDRAULIC POWER STATION IN GROUNDS OF CITY COLLEGE, WATER STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 83285 98315

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8398 WATER STREET 698-1/16/426 (West side) 23/07/92 Former Hydraulic Power Station in grounds of City College

II

Hydraulic power generating station, now part of college workshops. 1907-9, altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings, iron reservoirs, slate roof. Built on east bank of River Irwell. Irregular rectangular plan at right-angles to river. Baroque style. Two and 3 storeys, in form resembling nave with aisles, the aisles flat-roofed and surmounted by large rectangular reservoirs at the end close to the river, with tower on south side. Asymmetrical 4-bay east gable end, with stone plinth, banded pilasters, moulded cornice with parapet ramped up to open-pedimented gable over 3rd bay; tall segmental-headed windows in 2nd, 3rd and 4th bays, that in the 3rd bay with a doorway beneath, all mullion-and-transomed with arched lights and small-pane glazing in the heads; pairs of smaller but similar windows on 2 levels in the 1st bay, and all these windows with triple keystones; narrow triple-light window in gable with banded surround and arched lights. Glazed clerestory; rectangular tower set back behind 1st bay, with pilasters. West end (overlooking river) has 4 oblong 4-light windows with glazing like that at the east end, gabled end of nave over the 2 centre bays and panelled iron reservoirs on the aisles. One of 3 built as part of system for supplying hydraulic power to lifts and hoists of commercial warehouses in city centre; continued in use until 1972. Very unusual survival.

Listing NGR: SJ8328598315

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Legacy System number:: 457830
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.