Hydraulic Engine House
HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE, UNDERFALL YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202648
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Hydraulic Engine House
- Statutory Address:
- HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE, UNDERFALL YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202648
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Hydraulic Engine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE, UNDERFALL YARD
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:
- HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE, UNDERFALL YARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 57143 72168
Details
BRISTOL
ST5772 UNDERFALL YARD, Floating Harbour 901-1/41/1313 Hydraulic engine house 18/02/72
GV II*
Engine house. 1888. Red brick with a slate roof. Single-depth plan. Single storey; 6-window range. Left-hand semicircular-arched doorway, and 5 semicircular-arched windows with matching arched cills, to cast-iron windows with glazing bars. Square 2-stage accumulator tower set back to the right has an arched doorway and an oval window above, and a machicolated parapet. INTERIOR: hydraulic pumping machinery dated 1907 by Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay of Paisley, and workshop in the right end. Powers the docks hydraulic system of cranes, bridges and locks. (Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 64).
Listing NGR: ST5714372168
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380746
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lord, J, Southam, J, The Floating Harbour, (1983), 64
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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