Former Hull Hydraulic Power Company premises
Former Hull Hydraulic Power Company premises, Catherine Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293296
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former Hull Hydraulic Power Company premises
- Statutory Address:
- Former Hull Hydraulic Power Company premises, Catherine Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293296
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former Hull Hydraulic Power Company premises
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Hull Hydraulic Power Company premises, Catherine Street
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:
- Former Hull Hydraulic Power Company premises, Catherine Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Kingston upon Hull (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 09960 29488
Details
TA0929SE
680-1/18/247
KINGSTON UPON HULL
CATHERINE STREET (East side)
Former Hull Hydraulic Power Company premises
07/03/91
II
Former works of the Hull Hydraulic Power Company, now a workshop.1875. By Henry Robinson of London. Red brick with blue brick dressings and rendered plinth.
Single storey; 4x2 windows. Windows are round-arched cast-iron glazing bar casements. Right return has a blocked door to left and a window to right. There is no separate roof, the whole building acting as support for a sectional cast-iron tank which is inscribed "Stacey Davis & Co., Phoenix Foundry, Derby". In operation, water was pumped from the River Hull into the roof tank where it was allowed to settle. It was then raised to pressure by steam pumps and supplied by underground pipes to consumers.
Hydraulic power was frequently used in the oil-extracting industry and for firefighting. This undertaking was the first of its kind to be established by Act of Parliament in the UK. It was also Hull's first public utility. At its fullest extent, c1900, the system supplied about two-hundred consumers as far away as the Old Harbour. The operating company closed down in 1947.
Hydraulic power companies operated in a similar way in a number of cities in the late C19, notably in London and Manchester.
(Exhibit in Yorkshire Water Museum, Springhead, Hull; Plaque on building placed by City Council).
Listing NGR: TA0996029488
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387485
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hudson, K, Hydraulic Power in Industrial Archaeology, (n/a), n/a
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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