Net Boiler
NET BOILER, BATTERY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252214
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Net Boiler
- Statutory Address:
- NET BOILER, BATTERY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252214
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Net Boiler
- Statutory Address 1:
- NET BOILER, BATTERY ROAD
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:
- NET BOILER, BATTERY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lydd
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 09162 18378
Details
The following building shall be added to the list LYDD BATTERY ROAD TR 0420 1/10003 Net boiler II Net boiler, later c19. Square structure of tarred brick about 4 by 5 feet wide and 2½ feet high with brick chimney in one corner. Cemented parapet. Circular metal tanning copper in centre. Rectangular aperture at ground level in one side. Net boilers were used for dying and preserving fishing nets and clothing such as overalls and aprons. The circular copper tub was filled with water and a fire lit underneath. Resin from Burma was placed in a basket above the tub and slowly dissolved. When the water was stained to a dark brown, the nets and clothes used for a day's fishing were soaked in the solution to protect them against the ravages of sea water. The nets would be used for one day's fishing only and then dried out again to set the dye. Fishermen often boiled their nets on the same day and it was a social occasion. This tanning copper was larger than most examples and is now a very rare survival of a process associated with the fishing industry.
Listing NGR: TR0916218378
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175255
- 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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