Salisbury Generating Station

SALISBURY GENERATING STATION, ST THOMAS'S SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1243066
Date first listed:
28-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:
Salisbury Generating Station
Statutory Address:
SALISBURY GENERATING STATION, ST THOMAS'S SQUARE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1243066
Date first listed:
28-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Oct-1972
List Entry Name:
Salisbury Generating Station
Statutory Address 1:
SALISBURY GENERATING STATION, ST THOMAS'S SQUARE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SALISBURY GENERATING STATION, ST THOMAS'S SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Salisbury
National Grid Reference:
SU 14282 29960

Details

ST NICHOLAS'S SQUARE 1. 1594 Salisbury Generating Station (Formerly listed as Electric Light Works) SU 1429 NW 3/72 SU 1430 SW 1/72 28.2.52. II GV 2. Former Cl8 water mill with later C19 and modern extension. Front facingthe bridge and Bridge Street qv, with mill pond in front: the left hand part C19, flint and stone dressings 2 gable end stone mullioned and transomed tall windows. Brick buttresses. Right hand C18 part built over mill stream: 3 storeys red brick with small irregular wood casements. Old tile roof half hipped to left. Later extensions to rear and 2 storey red brick range towards St Thomas's Square proper. Picturesque.

Salisbury Generating station forms a group with Nos 12, 12A & 14 Bridge Street.

Listing NGR: SU1428229960

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
446532
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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