Engine House
ENGINE HOUSE, SUTTON STOP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365077
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINE HOUSE, SUTTON STOP
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365077
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINE HOUSE, SUTTON STOP
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:
- ENGINE HOUSE, SUTTON STOP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Nuneaton and Bedworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 36207 84618
Details
NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH SUTTON STOP side) SP38SE (North-west side) Hawkesbury Junction 8/75 Engine House 31/07/84 GV II
Canal engine house. c.1837. Possibly by John Sinclair, engineer to the Coventry Canal Company. English bond blue brick with dentil cornice. Late C20 plain-tile shallow-hipped roof. 3 storeys; 2-window range to canal. Right bay projects very slightly, but cornice is unbroken. Round-arched openings throughout. Windows are all-blocked, mostly late C20, except for right bay on top floor. Return sides have blocked top-floor windows. Left return side has doorway. Right return side has large blocked opening, Tall tapering octagonal chimney attached to rear corner has moulded brick cornice. To rear are fragments of a single-storey range demolished late C20. The building formerly housed a Newcomen pumping engine used to maintain the canal level. (Bouches, C.T.G.: Trans. of the Newcomer Society: Vol XXXV, 1962-63, pp59-66)
Listing NGR: SP3620784618
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308617
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bouches, C T G, Transactions of the Newcomen Society in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol. 35, (1962-1963), 59-66
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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