Lock Keepers Office 3 Metres East of the Hydraulic Tower
LOCK KEEPERS OFFICE 3 METRES EAST OF THE HYDRAULIC TOWER, ROYAL DOCK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379872
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Lock Keepers Office 3 Metres East of the Hydraulic Tower
- Statutory Address:
- LOCK KEEPERS OFFICE 3 METRES EAST OF THE HYDRAULIC TOWER, ROYAL DOCK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379872
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Lock Keepers Office 3 Metres East of the Hydraulic Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOCK KEEPERS OFFICE 3 METRES EAST OF THE HYDRAULIC 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:
- LOCK KEEPERS OFFICE 3 METRES EAST OF THE HYDRAULIC 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 27797 11376
Details
GRIMSBY
TA2711SE ROYAL DOCK, The Docks
699-1/5/131 Lock Keepers' Office 3m east of the
Hydraulic Accumulator Tower
GV II
Lock keepers' office. 1849-52 for Grimsby Dock Company. Red
brick in English bond with slate roof. Octagonal on plan,
single room with entrance lobby to north-west.
EXTERIOR: single storey. Plain door. Single windows to 3
adjacent southern sides and to north-east side, all with 4
panes and stone sills beneath cambered brick arches.
Low-pitched roof with overhanging eaves.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Stands beside the Hydraulic Accumulator Tower (qv),
overlooking the locks to the Royal Dock and the Dock Tower
(qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 343; Civil Engineering Heritage:
Labrum EA: Eastern and Central England: London: 1994-: 52-4; A
guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Lincolnshire & S.Humbs:
Wright NR: Lincoln: 1983-: 16-18; University of Hull
Publications: Gillett E: A History of Grimsby: London: 1970-:
214-5; Ambler RW: Great Grimsby Fishing Heritage: a brief for
a trail: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: 17-18, 20-22).
Listing NGR: TA2779711376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479307
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gillett, E, A History of Grimsby, (1970), 214-215
Wright, N R, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Lincolnshire, (), 16-18
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 343
Labrum, E A, Civil Engineering Heritage in Eastern And Central England, (1994), 52-54
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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