Boat Hoist on South Side of South Dock
BOAT HOIST ON SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH DOCK, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083214
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Boat Hoist on South Side of South Dock
- Statutory Address:
- BOAT HOIST ON SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH DOCK, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083214
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Boat Hoist on South Side of South Dock
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOAT HOIST ON SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH DOCK, BRIDGE STREET
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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:
- BOAT HOIST ON SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH DOCK, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Goole
- National Grid Reference:
- SE7426522863
Details
SE 72 SW
10/55
18.4.86
GOOLE
BRIDGE STREET
(west side, off)
Boat hoist on south side of South Dock
(formerly listed as South Dock, Boat Hoist adjacent to Knottingly and Goole Canal)
GV
II*
Boat hoist. c1862, invented by W H Bartholomew to transfer coal from canal
barge coal compartments into seagoing vessels. Framework of cast-iron
girders stands on ashlar abutments and carries weather-boarded cabins and
turret with asphalted roofs. 5-stage tower in pyramidal form with
semicircular roofed cabin to fifth stage surmounted by tapering domed
turret. Tall 3-storey compartment to east side. 12-pane Yorkshire sashes
to first 2 storeys. Cradle at base is submerged below compartment boat
which is raised on hydraulic cylinders to third stage where cradle tipping
cylinder tips compartment boat to project coal down shoot into hold of
waiting vessel. Buffers and clamp rectify tipped emptied compartment which
is then returned hydraulically in the cradle back to the water. Upper
cabins and tower house haulage gear. The compartment boats were popularly
known as Tom Puddings, hence the familiar local name for the structures is
"Tom Pudding Hoists". They were peculiar to Goole and originally there
were 5. Two now remain; the other is adjacent to Aldam Dock. Disused at
time of resurvey. 150 Years of the Port of Goole, British Waterways Board;
Waterway World, October 1983.
Listing NGR: SE7426522863
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165280
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
150 Years of the Port of Goole, ()
Waterway World in October, (1983)
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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