Alexandra Dock: Walls, Lock Gates, Graving Docks, Extension Dock
ALEXANDRA DOCK: WALLS, LOCK GATES, GRAVING DOCKS, EXTENSION DOCK, HEDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197739
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Alexandra Dock: Walls, Lock Gates, Graving Docks, Extension Dock
- Statutory Address:
- ALEXANDRA DOCK: WALLS, LOCK GATES, GRAVING DOCKS, EXTENSION DOCK, HEDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197739
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Alexandra Dock: Walls, Lock Gates, Graving Docks, Extension Dock
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALEXANDRA DOCK: WALLS, LOCK GATES, GRAVING DOCKS, EXTENSION DOCK, HEDON ROAD
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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:
- ALEXANDRA DOCK: WALLS, LOCK GATES, GRAVING DOCKS, EXTENSION DOCK, HEDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Kingston upon Hull (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 12420 28920
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA12NW HEDON ROAD 680-1/9/150 (South side (off)) 16/08/90 Alexandra Dock: walls, lock gates, graving docks, extension dock (Formerly Listed as: HEDON ROAD (South side (off)) Alexandra Dock, comprising the dock walls, Graving docks and Extension Dock)
GV II
Dock. 1880-85, extended 1899. Designed by James Abernethy and supervised by Oldham & Bonn, for the Hull & Barnsley Railway Co. Ashlar stonework and Portland Cement concrete. The dock walls are slightly battered and extend downwards approx 12m. The top 4m is faced with large ashlar blocks with rounded coping. The dock is rectangular in plan, approx 700m x 300m with a deep lock entrance on the south side with 3 pairs of steel lock gates, the outer pair renewed 1927-28, the central pair constructed 1957 and installed 1958. To the east, 3 jetties extend northward into the dock; this area was the timber yard. On the east side, the entrance to the extension dock, which was added in 1899. The north side has 2 graving docks at the north-east corner, with stepped sides and access stairs. The west side has a single central projecting jetty. The dock was constructed as a general cargo dock and as an outlet for the South Yorkshire coalfields.
Listing NGR: TA1242028920
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387570
- 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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