Main Dock Pumphouse (S 87 and 89)
MAIN DOCK PUMPHOUSE (S 87 AND 89), SOUTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378514
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Main Dock Pumphouse (S 87 and 89)
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN DOCK PUMPHOUSE (S 87 AND 89), SOUTH YARD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378514
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Main Dock Pumphouse (S 87 and 89)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN DOCK PUMPHOUSE (S 87 AND 89), SOUTH YARD
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:
- MAIN DOCK PUMPHOUSE (S 87 AND 89), SOUTH YARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 44885 54485
Details
SX 4454 SE PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard
740-1/97/214 Main Dock Pumphouse (5 87 and 89)
GV II
Hydraulic pumping station. Dated 1851, possibly by William Scamp, R E. limestone ashlar in alternate thick and thin courses with granite dressings and leaded roof. Engine house with square accumulator tower at S end.
EXTERIOR: single storey; windowless engine house, 2-storey; 2-bay tower. Engine house has a cornice, blocking course and pedimented N gable with a louvred oculus and ball finials with a central square section. The windowless E side has a right-hand doorway with raised surround and C20 door, gable has a right-hand recessed bay with corbel table and small-paned cross windows, the rest of the gable has an inserted mid C20 steel lintel with 4 ground- and first-floor casements. The tower has a corbelled cornice, an attic storey with moulded eaves coping and sunken panels with 4 oculi in each and a ball finial; tall recessed bays as that in the gable with cross windows, and ashlar panels between the storeys with VR in the S side and 1851 in the N side. In the NW corner is a truncated square chimney.
INTERIOR: all machinery removed; contains a metal-framed roof. HISTORY: in the same style as many of the North Yard buildings including the Quadrangle ( qv), it powered hydraulic cranes, capstans and dock lock gates. Hydraulic power was being introduced into docks from the 18505, and this is one of the earliest surviving examples of a pumping station of this type in any dockyard.
Listing NGR: SX4488554485
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476464
- 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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