Hydraulic Engine House

HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE, UNDERFALL YARD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1202648
Date first listed:
18-Feb-1972
Statutory Address:
HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE, UNDERFALL YARD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1202648
Date first listed:
18-Feb-1972
Statutory Address 1:
HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE, UNDERFALL YARD

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

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380746
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Lord, J, Southam, J, The Floating Harbour, (1983), 64

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