Hydraulic Engine House
HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE, CORN HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031896
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Hydraulic Engine House
- Statutory Address:
- HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE, CORN HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031896
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Hydraulic Engine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE, CORN HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE, CORN HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 92079 98773
Details
895-1/0/10048
CORN HILL (North side),
Hydraulic Engine House
21-AUG-02
GV II
Hydraulic engine house. c1890, built as part of the London and North Western Railway Company's Wolverhampton High Level development. Flemish Stretcher bond; double-gabled Welsh slate roof with rooflights. Square plan, in two bays, with boiler and engine house in each bay; hydraulic accumulator was located next to the engine house, to the east elevation (north end). Single storey. All elevations each have two recessed panels, the side elevations having dog-tooth cornices in blue brick. West elevation, facing The Old Steam Mill (grade II), has semi-circular arches to double-leaf plank doors. North elevation has two similar arches cast-iron multi-panelled windows, with centre hung top radial lights. Infilled window to south elevation. Two segmental-arched openings to former boilers in east elevation.
INTERIOR has iron roof trusses.
HISTORY: An integral functional part of a very fine grouping of industrial structures around Corn Hill. The interior housed two boilers and a cylinder steam engine, the hydraulic power thus produced (as water pressure) powering the cranes and ramps in the nearby Mill Street Goods Depot (listed grade II).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489790
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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