Former Hydraulic Power House

FORMER HYDRAULIC POWER HOUSE, DERBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1038691
Date first listed:
30-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
Former Hydraulic Power House
Statutory Address:
FORMER HYDRAULIC POWER HOUSE, DERBY ROAD
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1038691
Date first listed:
30-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
Former Hydraulic Power House
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER HYDRAULIC POWER HOUSE, DERBY ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER HYDRAULIC POWER HOUSE, DERBY ROAD

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
East Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Horninglow and Eton
National Grid Reference:
SK 24870 24224

Details

DERBY ROAD 1. 5369 (South side) Former hydraulic SK 2424 SE SP/754 power house 6/754

II GV

2.

Hydraulic power house. Late C19. Red brick with slate roof. Single storey with central accumulator tower having 3 recessed panels, each with a boarded segmental-headed opening. 3 windows to right; 2 windows (one blocked to left). Ridge ventilator to right. Lower 3 window range with central stack to left. Right gable end has inserted C20 door with roller shutter cutting through two windows; 3 windows in left gable end. This hydraulic power house complete with its engine rooms and characteristic accumulator tower would have provided power for elevators etc in the nearby LMS grain store (q.v) and for capstans in the extehsive Wetmore sidings where the brewery companies private networks for the most part connected with the main line.

Listing NGR: SK2487024224

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
273059
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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