MAIN BUILDING AT CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD FERRYBRIDGE A SITE

MAIN BUILDING AT CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD FERRYBRIDGE A SITE, OLD GREAT NORTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1266191
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: MAIN BUILDING AT CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD FERRYBRIDGE A SITE
Statutory Address:: MAIN BUILDING AT CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD FERRYBRIDGE A SITE, OLD GREAT NORTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1266191
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: MAIN BUILDING AT CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD FERRYBRIDGE A SITE
Statutory Address 1:: MAIN BUILDING AT CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD FERRYBRIDGE A SITE, OLD GREAT NORTH ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MAIN BUILDING AT CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD FERRYBRIDGE A SITE, OLD GREAT NORTH ROAD

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

District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 48194 24741

Details

KNOTTINGLEY OLD GREAT NORTH ROAD SE42SE (north side, off) 5/38 Main building at CEGB - Ferrybridge 'A' site. - II Power station; now offices, laboratories, and workshops. 1926, for Yorkshire Electric Power Company; altered. Red brick in English bond, with dressing of white terracotta. Rectangular plan containing turbine hall and boiler house as coupled receding wings to a front office block. In C20 classical style, the bays defined by giant pilasters of brick which have roll-moulded terracotta bases and capitals, with terracotta plinth and entablature. The symmetrical south front of 9 bays and 4 storeys has a full- height porch (the entrance hall and staircase) with clasping pilasters, the doorway in the plinth (with revolving doors), square overlight above, with terracotta architrave and cornice; and above this, a giant round-headed stair window which has a terracotta architrave with keystones, and iron glazing bars making 3 lights and many small panes. The 4 bays to each side contain similar 3-light windows divided into 4 diminishing stages (7,6,6, and 3 panes), with high transoms; but the outer bays have lorry doorways at ground floor (perhaps original, but that on the left enlarged vertically and horizontally); plain frieze of square tiles, and prominent dentilled cornice; flat roof (formerly 4 very tall chimneys to boiler house on right, now removed). Pilastered return walls, the 1st being the side of the office block, vertically divided by a brick strip, with fenestration matching the front; otherwise, the west return wall is of 7 wider bays, the east return wall of 8 bays, both with full-height fenestration above ground floor but the east side with square windows and some doorways at ground floor. Rear altered by additions. Interior: former turbine hall (now workshop) on west side is of full height, with inner steel frame supporting overhead cranes; former boiler house on east side now partitioned vertically and horizontally as offices; open-well staircase in porch, on steel bearers, with lift to rear.

Listing NGR: SE4819424741

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Legacy System number:: 422278
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.