Electric Transformer Pillar
ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER PILLAR, THE GLADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396381
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Electric Transformer Pillar
- Statutory Address:
- ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER PILLAR, THE GLADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396381
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Electric Transformer Pillar
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER PILLAR, THE GLADE
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:
- ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER PILLAR, THE GLADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Reigate and Banstead (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 25873 56825
Reasons for Designation
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Details
66/0/10059 THE GLADE 14-DEC-10 Kingswood ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER PILLAR
II Transformer pillar with streetlight, c1914 with late C20 lamps.
Constructed of cast-iron, the pillar is circular in plan, approximately 1m in diameter, and 2.5m in height. Ribs split the face of the pillar vertically into panels, and horizontally into three reducing stages. The lower two stages each have two pairs of doors on opposite sides, and the top stage has a decorative panelled frieze. Above is an egg and dart cornice and a shallow conical top. A decorative lamp column rises from the centre. The top part of the column splits to form a T-shape and a lamp is held on either end of the cross bar; this top section is a later replacement of the original lamp. A panel on one of the lower doors gives the name of the maker: British Electric Transformer Company, Hayes, Middlesex.
HISTORY: The Glade and the adjoining roads were being developed from 1914 onwards. The transformer pillar was installed under The Banstead, Walton on the Hill & District Electrical Lighting Order 1914, which provided electricity to certain named streets in the area, including The Glade. The installation was undertaken by Gilbert Allom, Electrical Engineer, who acted as a private undertaker for the generation and supply of electricity for all public and private purposes in Banstead Parish.
SOURCES: English Heritage Monuments Protection Programme Step Report, Electric Power Generation, Steps 1 and 3 (1994)
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The early C20 electricity transformer pillar at The Glade, Banstead, Surrey, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Design interest: the transformer pillars produced by the British Electric Transformer Company are handsome pieces of industrial design. * Historic interest: this in-situ example survives from the early period of mass electricity supply, which was to have a revolutionary effect on British domestic life.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 508269
- 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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