Dock Road Pumping Station
DOCK ROAD PUMPING STATION, WEIR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240202
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Dock Road Pumping Station
- Statutory Address:
- DOCK ROAD PUMPING STATION, WEIR STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240202
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Dock Road Pumping Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOCK ROAD PUMPING STATION, WEIR STREET
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:
- DOCK ROAD PUMPING STATION, WEIR STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Northwich
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 65695 73215
Details
NORTHWICH SJ 67 SE WEIR STREET (west side) 5/10000 Dock Road Pumping Station
GV II
Sewage pump house. 1910. Rustic brick with blue-brick and ashlar dressings; flat roof behind crenellated parapet. Circular; single storey. Chamfered blue-brick plinth band. Round-arched, quoined doorway faces Weir Street and has boarded double doors with ornamental strap hinges. Flanking the doorway are square rain-water pipes with decorative hoppers. Set around the building are seven 8-pane windows with chamfered sills and voussoired, round arches; each is set in a recessed panel with blue-brick offset bands below and above. Nosed string course beneath crenellated parapet with flat copings.
Interior: two 3-cylinder pumps by Hayward Tyler and Co. of London and two engines by Crossley Bros. Ltd. of Manchester. The machinery dates from 1910 and was originally gas-fuelled.
Rare example of a gas-powered pumping station for sewage treatment.
Listing NGR: SJ6569573215
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438310
- 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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