Steam Locomotive Water Point
STEAM LOCOMOTIVE WATER POINT, CAMLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113023
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Steam Locomotive Water Point
- Statutory Address:
- STEAM LOCOMOTIVE WATER POINT, CAMLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113023
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jun-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Steam Locomotive Water Point
- Statutory Address 1:
- STEAM LOCOMOTIVE WATER POINT, CAMLEY 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:
- STEAM LOCOMOTIVE WATER POINT, CAMLEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29899 83551
Details
798-1/84/587 CAMLEY STREET 11-JUN-03 Steam Locomotive Water Point (Formerly listed as: GOODS WAY LOCOMOTIVE WATER POINT NORTH OF ST PAN ST PANCRAS STATION) (Formerly listed as: EUSTON ROAD WATER POINT NORTH OF ST PANCRAS)
II Steam Locomotive Water Point. C.1870, probably by the office of Sir George Gilbert Scott, for the Midland Railway. EXTERIOR: red brick with yellow stone dressings, iron water tank within. Rectangular structure in three tiers. Lower tier with arched doors to sides, with radiating voussoirs above; moulded stone plinth bands and string course. Middle tier with seven bay arcades to long sides, with stone capitals to pilasters and alternate brick and stone voussoirs. Corbel table above. Upper tier entirely of brick, with blind arcade with round-headed arches. HISTORY: this formerly served Midland Railway steam locomotives departing from St Pancras Station. The structure was in place by 1872, when the 'Quarterly Review' criticised the inappropriate use of Gothic for a functional structure of this sort. It was one of a pair of structures, the other (long demolished) housing hydraulic lifting gear used to raise beer barrels from the station undercroft. Redundant following the disappearance of steam from main line use in the early 1960s, it was first listed in 1974. The construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link necessitated the relocation of the structure to its present location on Camley Street. This was undertaken in November 2001, with funding assistance from the Heritage Lottery Fund, when the structure was removed in three parts and re-erected 700 m. north of its old location. The Morton Partnership Ltd were the consulting engineers responsible. It is an exceptionally architectural example of a water point, and related historically and stylistically with the great terminus of St Pancras. SOURCE: report by Pre-Construct Archaeology, 'A Survey of Historic Pipe-work at the Waterpoint, St Pancras (2001). Listing NGR: TQ2989983551
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477350
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pre-Construct Archaeology, , A Survey of Historic Pipe-work at the Waterpoint, St Pancras, (2001)
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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