Lade Bank Lock, Pumping Station and Chimney
LADE BANK LOCK, PUMPING STATION AND CHIMNEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360501
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lade Bank Lock, Pumping Station and Chimney
- Statutory Address:
- LADE BANK LOCK, PUMPING STATION AND CHIMNEY
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360501
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lade Bank Lock, Pumping Station and Chimney
- Statutory Address 1:
- LADE BANK LOCK, PUMPING STATION AND CHIMNEY
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:
- LADE BANK LOCK, PUMPING STATION AND CHIMNEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Boston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Leake
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 37933 54489
Details
TF 35 SE OLD LEAKE LADE BANK
2/105 Lade Bank Lock, Pumping Station and Chimney
II
Lock, pumping station and chimney. 1805 by John Rennie and 1867. Red brick, red and yellow brick, slate roofs with raised stone coped gables and kneelers. Originally consisting of a lock of 4 cutwaters and 2 abutments all of keeled plan with gritstone cappings, with grooves and fixings for lock gates. In 1867 an engine house and pumping station with tall chimney was built above. Single storey, 7 bay front, with plinth, arranged 4:3, the right hand 3 bays being set back and built on arches over the earlier lock. Semi-circular headed windows retain original cast iron glazing bars and have red and yellow banded voussoirs. In the right hand gable are 2 further similar windows and above a blocked circular opening formerly louvred. To left a tall square tapering brick chimney in Italianate style having triple plinth to the base and tall red brick recessed panels to the sides, with yellow brick angles and imposts. Above a dentillated and projecting course are paired similar shorter panels, also with voussoirs. The top of the chimney is corbelled out with moulded bands. On the left hand gable a contemporary wrought iron weather vane. Light cast iron roof trusses throughout. The engine house contained 6 boilers to raise the steam to operate the 2 pumps. The pumping station has been replaced by a modern station of 1938 also partly built on the original lock bases. The 1867 pumping station was built when the shrinking of the peat in the East Fen meant that the fen could no longer be drained by gravity, and the water had to be pumped into the higher southern half of Hobhole Drain. Source: Neil R. Wright.
Listing NGR: TF3793354489
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 192024
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wright, N R, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Lincolnshire, ()
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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