ELECTRICITY JUNCTION BOX OUTSIDE NOS. 12-14

ELECTRICITY JUNCTION BOX OUTSIDE NOS. 12-14, BATHURST RD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391909
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-2007
List Entry Name:: ELECTRICITY JUNCTION BOX OUTSIDE NOS. 12-14
Statutory Address:: ELECTRICITY JUNCTION BOX OUTSIDE NOS. 12-14, BATHURST RD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391909
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-2007
List Entry Name:: ELECTRICITY JUNCTION BOX OUTSIDE NOS. 12-14
Statutory Address 1:: ELECTRICITY JUNCTION BOX OUTSIDE NOS. 12-14, BATHURST RD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ELECTRICITY JUNCTION BOX OUTSIDE NOS. 12-14, BATHURST RD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:: Folkestone
National Grid Reference:: TR 21134 36025

Details

FOLKESTONE

737/0/10039 BATHURST RD 30-MAR-07 ELECTRICITY JUNCTION BOX OUTSIDE NOS. 12-14

II Electrical junction box, early C20, believed to date to c1904.

DESCRIPTION: The junction box is cast iron with moulded decoration. Standing about 1.2m high, the box and base are square in plan, the base attic in form, standing on a shallow plinth. Each rectangular side of the box bears a panel with raised decoration enclosed within a moulded frame, one of which is a door giving access to the inside. The most elaborately decorated panel bears the crest of Folkestone Borough Council. Above each panel is a pendulous arabesque decoration hanging from the lower edge of the cornice. The chamfered moulded shoulders of the box spread to translate the square to an octagon, on alternate sides of which, above the chamfered corners of the square, are inverted cup handles with fluted decoration. Immediately above is a moulded cornice, and the box is finished with a domed cap.

HISTORY: The junction box stands on the roadside in front of Nos. 12 & 14 Bathurst Road. A date embossed on the porch of No.14 indicates that these, and No. 16, were built in 1904, ten to twenty years before the development of the surrounding area. It seems probable that the junction box was erected by Folkestone Borough Council, whose crest is on one of the side panels of the box, to provide electricity to these properties: this date is consistent with similar but rarely surviving structures erected elsewhere in England in the late C19 and early C20.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: The cast iron junction box on Bathurst Road is a good in situ example of early electricity distribution equipment. No other examples of this ornate design are recorded, and it may be unique to Folkestone. It is illustrative of the high quality of industrial design for the early electricity industry.

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Legacy System number:: 502320
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.