Generator house at Barlowfold
Generator house at Barlowfold, London Road North
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232298
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Generator house at Barlowfold
- Statutory Address:
- Generator house at Barlowfold, London Road North
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232298
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Generator house at Barlowfold
- Statutory Address 1:
- Generator house at Barlowfold, London Road North
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:
- Generator house at Barlowfold, London Road North
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poynton with Worth
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 92043 84947
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 April 2024 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ 98 SW
3/112
POYNTON-WITH-WORTH C.P.
LONDON ROAD NORTH (West Side)
Generator house at Barlowfold
II
Generator house: circa 1880 probably for W A Turner. Pre-cast concrete sections. One-storey, symmetrical, two-bay south front. Nine-pane iron casements. Interior: A steel pipe ducts water from the former mill leat through a turbine electric generator by W Gunther of Oldham and out beneath the house. The switchgear for both AC and DC generation is against the south wall.
W A Turner was an early pioneer of the use of electric light in his Cotton Mills and an active director of the Edison Electric Light Co. and this installation supplied Barlowfold, a house he occupied in 1881.
Listing NGR: SJ9204384947
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407638
- 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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