Hydraulic Accumulator Tower to West of the Dock Tower
HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR TOWER TO WEST OF THE DOCK TOWER, ROYAL DOCK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1379871
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Hydraulic Accumulator Tower to West of the Dock Tower
- Statutory Address:
- HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR TOWER TO WEST OF THE DOCK TOWER, ROYAL DOCK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1379871
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Hydraulic Accumulator Tower to West of the Dock Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR TOWER TO WEST OF THE DOCK TOWER, ROYAL DOCK
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:
- HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR TOWER TO WEST OF THE DOCK TOWER, ROYAL DOCK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 27792 11379
Details
GRIMSBY
TA2711SE ROYAL DOCK, The Docks
699-1/5/130 Hydraulic Accumulator Tower to west
31/10/74 of the Dock Tower
(Formerly Listed as:
THE DOCKS
Tower on opposite pier to west of
main Dock Tower)
GV II*
Hydraulic accumulator tower. 1892 for The Grimsby Dock
Company. Red-brown brick with ashlar dressings.
EXTERIOR: square tower 78 ft tall. Single stage. Round-headed
door to south side. Each side has a full-height panel with
chamfered brick reveals to the bottom and sides and a
dentilled and chamfered cornice to the top. Each panel
contains 4 tiers of narrow twin round-headed openings with
stone sills, chamfered jambs and rubbed-brick arches. One of
the second-tier openings on the west side has C20 blocking.
East and west sides have small single stone panel between and
below the second tier of openings, and a central vertical row
of iron fixing bolts. Stone band. Top section with imitation
machicolations and brick-coped parapet with pointed arched
crenellations, the corner ones with ashlar caps.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: this accumulator tower was built to provide
high-pressure hydraulic power to move the gates to the east
and west locks to the Royal Dock (qv), and to power dockside
machinery. It largely superseded the earlier Dock Tower (qv).
The design of its cap echoes that of the earlier tower. It was
superseded in 1980 by an electrically-driven oil-hydraulic
system.
Together, this accumulator tower and the earlier Dock Tower
form a unique and important survival of early hydraulic
systems, illustrating the development in hydraulic power
technology from low-pressure to high-pressure operation.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 343; A guide to the Industrial
Archaeology of Lincolnshire & S.Humbs: Wright NR: Lincoln:
1983-: 16-18; Ambler RW: Great Grimsby Fishing Heritage: a
brief for a trail: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: 21-22).
Listing NGR: TA2779211379
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479306
- 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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