Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass Works
Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass Works, 9, Watson Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075879
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass Works
- Statutory Address:
- Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass Works, 9, Watson Street
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075879
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass Works, 9, Watson Street
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:
- Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass Works, 9, Watson Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- St. Helens (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 51214 95014
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 April 2022 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ 59 NW
4/94
ST. HELENS
WATSON STREET (north side)
No. 9 (Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass Works)
II*
Glass house. 1883. Brick with slate roof. Rectangular gabled building. East facade has weathered buttresses between deep battered buttresses. West facade has truncated remains of deep battered buttresses. South gable end has blocked segmental headed windows above large entrance; blocked round window in gable. Oval cone rises through roof. Plaque records the first glass tank, which started working here in 1887. Interior not inspected but said to have cast iron columns supporting cone and former Siemens reverberatory tank furnace.
Reference: A Guide to Merseyside's Industrial Past, P. Rees. 1984, p22.
Listing NGR: SJ5121495014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216386
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rees, P, A Guide to Merseysides Industrial Past, (1984), 22
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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