Water Tower at Knaresborough Station
WATER TOWER AT KNARESBOROUGH STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387760
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower at Knaresborough Station
- Statutory Address:
- WATER TOWER AT KNARESBOROUGH STATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387760
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower at Knaresborough Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER TOWER AT KNARESBOROUGH STATION
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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:
- WATER TOWER AT KNARESBOROUGH STATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knaresborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 34850 57172
Details
SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH KNARESBOROUGH
1086/6/10032 Water Tower at Knaresborough
Station
GV II
Railway station water tank. 1851 for the York and North Midland Railway, manufactured probably by James Walker of Leeds. Cast iron and brick. Rectangular plan brick base with thicker corner piers which support a 3 x 2 panel cast iron tank. The short side of the base has a plain entrance door, the long side an arched window with 3 x 4 panes in a cast iron frame, stone cill. Other elevations are hidden. INTERIOR not inspected. This building forms part of an important group of railway buildings with the immediately adjacent Knaresborough station and tunnel and the signal box and viaduct at the other end of the platform. History: Knaresborough station was opened in 1851 when the connections south to Leeds and north to Thirsk and York were completed. The Leeds-Thirsk line was built by the Leeds and Thirsk Railway, later the Leeds Northern Railway. The line to York from the junction just north of the tunnel was built by the East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway. This last was taken over by the York and North Midland Railway ion 1851 just as the Knaresborough connection was being completed. The line through Knaresborough was worked by the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway meanwhile but all came together when the North Eastern Railway amalgamated all constituents in 1854. References: Leslie James, A Chronology of the Construction of Britain's Railways 1778-1855, Ian Allan, 1983. Christopher Awdry, Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies, Patrick Stephens Ltd., 1990. Bill Fawcett, A History of the York-Scarborough Railway, Hutton Press, 1995, p 118, shows a larger example of the same type of tank at Malton station on the Y and NMR which was built in 1845.
Listing NGR: SE3484957173
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475751
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fawcett, B, A History of the York Scarborough Railway, (1995), 118
Awdry, C, Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies, (1990)
James, L, A Chronology of the Construction of Britains Railways 1778-1855, (1983)
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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