Electrical Junction Box in front of Stacklands and Fountain Court
High Street, Eynsford, Dartford, DA4 0AB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1483152
- Date first listed:
- 27-Mar-2023
- List Entry Name:
- Electrical Junction Box in front of Stacklands and Fountain Court
- Statutory Address:
- High Street, Eynsford, Dartford, DA4 0AB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1483152
- Date first listed:
- 27-Mar-2023
- List Entry Name:
- Electrical Junction Box in front of Stacklands and Fountain Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- High Street, Eynsford, Dartford, DA4 0AB
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:
- High Street, Eynsford, Dartford, DA4 0AB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eynsford
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ5415665577
Summary
Electricity junction box of around the early C20, manufactured by Hardy and Padmore of Worcester.
Reasons for Designation
The electrical junction box of around the early C20, manufactured by Hardy and Padmore of Worcester, which stands in front of Stacklands and Fountain Court, High Street, Eynsford is listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* as a well-detailed design by the company of Hardy and Padmore of Worcester, which survives well;
* as an increasingly rare survival of an electrical junction box from the first age of electrical supply.
Historic interest:
* the junction box is a reminder of how electricity was supplied in the early C20 and the importance accorded to its infrastructure.
History
Electrical junction boxes were introduced across England from the late C19 and were part of the distribution and supply infrastructure needed to transfer electricity from where it was generated to its point of use. The junction box, or feeder pillar, was designed to take power from the grid and control the electrical supply to a number of buildings in the surrounding area. The Eynsford junction box was probably installed around the turn of the C20 to supply electricity to houses and the local school (now a house known as the Manse). It would have been constructed at the Worcester foundry of Hardy and Padmore.
Robert and John Hardy set up their business in 1814 and Richard Padmore joined the partnership in 1829. The foundry was an important English producer of goods for worldwide distribution, including lamp posts, tram wire supports and poles, bollards, thresholds and manhole covers. Hardy and Padmore went into voluntary liquidation in 1967.
A number of their products are listed including several gas lamps, and examples of feeder pillars on Library Walk and in Lincoln Square, Manchester (National Heritage List for England (NHLE) entries 1449639, 1475459, 1475254 and 1475255). Another listed feeder pillar is located within the suburb of Hornsey, London (NHLE entry 1359591).
Details
Electricity junction box of around the early C20, manufactured by Hardy and Padmore of Worcester.
MATERIALS: cast iron.
DESCRIPTION: a pillar-like, rectangular box which faces north-west and is located on the pavement adjacent to a retaining wall. It is around 1.5m high and 0.3m in width and depth. It has a pyramidal cap above a dentilled cornice supported at each corner by a slender colonette. The faces have moulded panelling and raised decoration with the central three panels having foliage to the corners. The front face has a circular maker's mark containing the name of Hardy Padmore Limited, Worcester. The side faces have an oval motif to the centre and an integral, moulded door handle. The rear face is obscured by the wall.
Sources
Websites
Information on Hardy & Padmore from Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History, accessed 10/10/2022 from https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Hardy_and_Padmore
Local History Website Hardy & Padmore, accessed 10/10/2022 from www.worcesterpeopleandplaces.org.uk/news/383/144/Ha
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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