Machine Shop
MACHINE SHOP, UNDERFALL YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218669
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Machine Shop
- Statutory Address:
- MACHINE SHOP, UNDERFALL YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218669
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Machine Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- MACHINE SHOP, 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:
- MACHINE SHOP, 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 57194 72108
Details
BRISTOL
ST5772 UNDERFALL YARD, Floating Harbour 901-1/41/1314 (South side) Machine shop
GV II*
Machine shop. c1885. Extended early C20. Brick with a tiled double-pile hipped roof. Open plan. Single storey, with a 2-storey; 2-window C20 extension. A plain shed with corbelled eaves, sliding doors at each end, with a hipped C20 office extension along the left-hand end with a 7-window-range return elevation of metal casements. An octagonal chimney attached to the right-hand return. INTERIOR: comprises boiler and engine houses, blacksmith's and engineer's shops. Much original machinery survives, including steam-powered plant from the mid 1880's, for planing, slotting, punching-and-shearing, a long-bed lathe and steam hammer, wall-mounted line shafting and a Tangye horizontal engine and Cornish boiler. HISTORICAL NOTE: built on land reclaimed behind Jessops' 1809 Floating Harbour dam, and named after Brunel's Under Fall culvert of 1832 for removing silt into the New Cut. '..nowhere else is the essential character of the dock landcape preserved so completely' (Lord and Southam). (BIAS Journal: Bristol: 1968-: 20; Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 66).
Listing NGR: ST5719472108
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380747
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lord, J, Southam, J, The Floating Harbour, (1983), 66
British Industrial Archaeology Society Journal in British Industrial Archaeology Society Journal, (1968), 20
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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