Former Boiler and Engine House at Goldstone Pumping Station
Former Boiler and Engine House, British Engineerium, The Droveway, Hove, BN3 7QA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187600
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Former Boiler and Engine House at Goldstone Pumping Station
- Statutory Address:
- Former Boiler and Engine House, British Engineerium, The Droveway, Hove, BN3 7QA
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187600
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Former Boiler and Engine House at Goldstone Pumping Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Boiler and Engine House, British Engineerium, The Droveway, Hove, BN3 7QA
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:
- Former Boiler and Engine House, British Engineerium, The Droveway, Hove, BN3 7QA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 28530 06549
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 January 2024 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards
TQ2806NE
579-1/8/180
HOVE
West Blatchington
THE DROVEWAY
Former Boiler and Engine House at Goldstone Pumping Station
(Formerly Listed as WOODLAND DRIVE (East side) Boiler and Engine House at Goldstone Pumping Station, previously listed as WOODLAND DRIVE The Goldstone Pumping Station)
07/06/71
GV
II*
Boiler house and engine house of Goldstone Pumping station, now museum known as the British Engineerium. 1866 for the Brighton Hove and Preston Constant Service Water Supply Company, engineers Easton and Amos, enlarged with west engine house in 1876 for the Brighton Water Corporation, engineers Eastons and Anderson, ceased to be fully operational in the late 1940s, restored 1974-6.
Polychrome brickwork, yellow, red and blue-purple, with some moulded brick, slate roofs with skylights, coped verges.
Plan: two-storey beam engine houses flanking single storey boilerhouse, No.1 beam engine to east dismanted and now museum, No 2 beam engine (west) fully operational, fuel economiser room on north front, underground tunnel linking former coal shed (qv) to west, remains of underground railway tracks.
South front: gable-fronted two-storey, three-bay engine houses, pediment to gable end, bracketed cornice, all cast-iron windows, linked entablature to round-headed window openings, continuous decorative string linking whole range, rusticated ground floors with central round-headed doorways, fanlights and panelled double doors flanked by round-headed windows, all with linked entablatures; central single-storey range of three bays, similar windows flanking central bay which projects forward with strongly moulded cornice, segmental-headed opening, fanlight, panelled double doors with ornamental metal grills. Four-bay return right, renewed cast-iron railings returned from entrance north around west front.
Operational Eastons and Anderson beam engine dated 1872, four boilers by Yates and Thom, Blackburn, dated 1934, E. Green and Son fuel economiser.
Listing NGR: TQ2853006549
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365677
- 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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