Sugar Silo
SUGAR SILO, 173, REGENT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1252955
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Sugar Silo
- Statutory Address:
- SUGAR SILO, 173, REGENT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1252955
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Sugar Silo
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUGAR SILO, 173, REGENT 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:
- SUGAR SILO, 173, REGENT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 33901 93491
Details
The following building shall be added:
SJ 39 SW REGENT ROAD
393-/3/10000 NO 173 Sugar Silo
- II*
Sugar silo. 1955-57. Designed by Tate and Lyle's Engineering Department and constructed by Cementation Ltd. Reinforced concrete with pre-stressed concrete floor. Parabolic tunnel vault, rectangular in plan, comprising 12 sections each with 6 external ribs. Loaded via conveyor belts running in a housing which stretches along the top of the structure. Both ends also of ribbed reinforced concrete, with windows and doors. Interior comprises a single unbroken space with a central channel in the floor containing hoppers for the reclamation of the sugar, which dropped onto a conveyor belt in a tunnel beneath. Smooth sides to the vault with a plimsoll line marked along the sides for the guidance of operatives in loading the silo. A rare and impressive example of a reinforced concrete parabolic tunnel vaulted storage silo. Tate and Lyle Times April 1956 pp 10-11; January 1957; January 1958; April 1958 pp 12-13.
Listing NGR: SJ3390193491
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436077
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tate and Lyle Times in April, (1956), 10-11
Tate and Lyle Times in April, (1958), 12-13
Tate and Lyle Times in January, (1957)
Tate and Lyle Times in January, (1958)
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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