Gasworks Perimeter Wall
GASWORKS PERIMETER WALL, SILVERTHORNE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279549
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Gasworks Perimeter Wall
- Statutory Address:
- GASWORKS PERIMETER WALL, SILVERTHORNE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279549
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Gasworks Perimeter Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GASWORKS PERIMETER WALL, SILVERTHORNE LANE
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:
- GASWORKS PERIMETER WALL, SILVERTHORNE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 60216 72498
Details
BRISTOL
ST6072 SILVERTHORNE LANE, St Philip 901-1/43/1923 (North West side) 04/03/77 Gasworks perimeter wall (Formerly Listed as: SILVERTHORNE LANE Gasworks Wall fronting Silverthorne Lane and Gas Lane)
GV II
Wall. Mid/late C19. For Bristol Gas Light Company. Pennant rubble and ashlar. Perimeter wall to SE and NE sides of former gasworks; incorporating an infilled elliptical ashlar carriage arch at the NW end. Part of the Bristol Gas Light Company's Avon Street works, opened in 1821. Listed as part of the industrial landscape around the St Vincent's Works (qv), and its associated walls. (Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 96).
Listing NGR: ST6021672498
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380524
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lord, J, Southam, J, The Floating Harbour, (1983)
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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