Pumping Station
PUMPING STATION, CASTLE DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375736
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Pumping Station
- Statutory Address:
- PUMPING STATION, CASTLE DRIVE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375736
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Pumping Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUMPING STATION, CASTLE DRIVE
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:
- PUMPING STATION, CASTLE DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40670 65802
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4065 CASTLE DRIVE 1932-1/8/32 (South side) Pumping Station
II
Hydro-electric generating station, now water company's pumping station. 1912-13. For Chester City Council, whose Electrical Engineer was SE Britton: consultant engineer for the hydro-electric station AC Hurtzig; proposed building designed under supervision of SE Britton, but re-design more harmonious with the adjoining Old Dee Bridge prepared by the Chester and North Wales Architectural Society (accepted by the Electricity Committee 1.5.1912). Coursed tooled red sandstone. EXTERIOR: one storey to Castle Drive, flat roof. The simple front has unpierced stone face to generator hall inscribed in raised letters on a long stone panel CITY OF CHESTER HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER STATION : A.D. MCMXIII. A small ashlar entrance tower, right, has oak 3-leaf folding doors of 3 fielded panels in a Tudor-arched opening; stone parapet. The west side to the river has leaded lancet in tower, 3 buttressed bays with a pointed-arched spillway in the first and recessed pointed-arched panels of stone in the second and third; a weathered string; 2 pairs of leaded lancets to each bay; a shorter blank end-bay. The east side is similarly expressed, but with steel eel-traps to inlets and steel walkway. The south end has a massive walkway-plinth with sluice, right. Above the plinth a pair of boarded oak doors with postern in a broad pointed archway. INTERIOR not inspected. The power station stands on the site of the medieval Mills of Dee. (Chester City Council and Committees: Electricity and Improvement Committee Minutes: 1911-1913: PASSIM).
Listing NGR: SJ4067065802
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469715
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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