Dock Pumping Station (N 114 and 115)
DOCK PUMPING STATION (N 114 AND 115), NORTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378571
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Dock Pumping Station (N 114 and 115)
- Statutory Address:
- DOCK PUMPING STATION (N 114 AND 115), NORTH YARD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378571
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Dock Pumping Station (N 114 and 115)
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOCK PUMPING STATION (N 114 AND 115), NORTH 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:
- DOCK PUMPING STATION (N 114 AND 115), NORTH 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 44866 56120
Details
SX 4456 SE PLYMOUTH NORTH YARD, Devonport
Dockyard
740-1/90/195
Dock Pumping Station (N 114 and 115)
GV II
Hydraulic pumping station. Dated 1905, by Stothert and Pitt, engineers. Red brick with limestone dressings and slate roof. Square plan with rear boiler house. Edwardian Baroque style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; W front of 2:1:2-window range. Articulated by wide rusticated pilasters, with a plinth, ground-floor cornice, entablature and cornice beneath parapet; moulded stone string course, with entablature to central pilasters. Keyed stone architrave to semicircular arched window above date panel and segmental-arched rusticated doorway with cavetto-moulded surround and 3-pane overlight. Keyed segmental-arched ovolo-moulded architraves to ground-floor windows and alternating stone voussoirs to round-arched first-floor windows. Metal-framed casements. Similar articulation to 3-bay sides with keyed first-floor oculi and segmental-arched doorway to N (left-hand) return. Lower rear range altered mid C20. Right-hand single-storey range not included.
INTERIOR: has riveted iron columns to a strutted iron roof. HISTORY: probably contained a pair of triple expansion engines. The station pumped out the new No.8 dock (qv), the most complete remaining dry dock associated with the Dreadnought class, part of the Key ham Dreadnought Dockyard extension (opened 1907). The use of hydraulic power was central to the operation of cranes, capstans and lock gates. A notable large hydraulic pumping station, externally well presented and comparable to those at Chatham and Portsmouth (qv).
(Sources: North East London Polytechnic and GLC: Dockland An illustrated Historical Survey of Life and Work: London: 1986: 159).
Listing NGR: SX4486656120
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476521
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carr, R J M, Dockland: An illustrated historical survey of life and work in east London, (1986), 159
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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