Prickwillow Engine House
Prickwillow Engine House, Main Street, Prickwillow, CB7 4UN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262255
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Prickwillow Engine House
- Statutory Address:
- Prickwillow Engine House, Main Street, Prickwillow, CB7 4UN
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03853/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262255
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Prickwillow Engine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Prickwillow Engine House, Main Street, Prickwillow, CB7 4UN
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:
- Prickwillow Engine House, Main Street, Prickwillow, CB7 4UN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ely
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5977282424
Details
TL 58 SE
606-/10/10001
ELY
MAIN STREET (south side)
Prickwillow
Prickwillow Engine House
II
Drainage engine house and Mirrlees engine with pump; converted to museum of industrial archaeology. Single remaining bay of 1842 house; rebuilt in 1880; engine and pump opened in 1923. Constructed by the Middle Fen and Mere Board; the initials of its Clerk, Goodwyn Luddington Archer, are to be found on a stone on the inside of the west wall. Brick in English bond; gable-facing roof of 1880 block of corrugated metal with metal ventilators at either end of the ridge; lean-to roof to lower, earlier structure, parapeted. Single storey. Two-window range with earlier block of one bay set bay from main elevation and having one-window range. Interior of main block divided into five bays by timber trusses. Main elevation with round-arched openings in round-arched recesses; roundel to facing gable bricked in; below datestone with initials, W.H. and J.S., very likely those of the builder. Purlins and simply moulded barge board to gable eaves; common rafter ends on left return cut as volutes.
Interior: original roof receives additional support from a grid of steel "I" beams, set in interior buttress strips. Trusses comprised of strutted king and queen posts carried on a continuous brick corbel table. Documentary evidence indicates that the structure was built on timber piles overlaid with concrete base; brick-lined well to pump at west; In 1923, the original beam engine replaced by five-cylinder Mirrlees diesel engine, driving a centrifugal pump.
Listing NGR: TL5977282424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435475
- 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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