Sewer Ventilation Pipe outside 18 Hill Street

Sewer Ventilation Pipe outside 18 Hill Street, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1NR

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Overview

A sewer ventilation pipe dating from the second half of the C19. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1486458
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-2023
List Entry Name:: Sewer Ventilation Pipe outside 18 Hill Street
Statutory Address:: Sewer Ventilation Pipe outside 18 Hill Street, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1NR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1486458
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-2023
List Entry Name:: Sewer Ventilation Pipe outside 18 Hill Street
Location Description:: It is centred on grid reference SZ 01147 90653
Statutory Address 1:: Sewer Ventilation Pipe outside 18 Hill Street, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1NR

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Sewer Ventilation Pipe outside 18 Hill Street, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1NR

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

District:: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SZ0114790653

Summary

A sewer ventilation pipe dating from the second half of the C19.

Reasons for Designation

The sewer ventilation pipe at the corner of 18 Hill Street in Poole is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* it is a decorative example enriched with spiral binding and the town's former coat of arms; * as a substantially intact and increasingly rare type of street furniture. Historic interest:

* as evidence of the town’s response to public health concerns and national legislation on sewage disposal in the second half of the C19.

History

Typically dating from the mid-to-late C19, sewer ventilation pipes, also known as gas exhaust pipes, were installed to help prevent airlocks and safely disperse the noxious gases which built up in the sewers below the streets. They were necessarily tall to carry odours above street level.

The sewer ventilation pipe on Hill Street was installed in the second half of the C19 as part of the Borough of Poole’s sewerage system. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey maps of 1888, 1902 and 1912 with the letter ‘P’, for pipe. The precise date and the foundry responsible for its design are not known as it has no manufacturer’s plate, but it is considered (Heritage Assets, see Sources) to have been produced by a local foundry.

Details

A sewer ventilation pipe dating from the second half of the C19.

DESCRIPTION It is situated on the pavement adjacent to the south-west corner of 18 Hill Street. It is a tall, tapering, cylindrical pipe of cast iron. It has a moulded base and a two-part column above which has a lower section enriched with a decorative spiral binding. A collar with mouldings conceals the joint and is decorated on two sides with the Borough coat of arms, comprising three scallop shells and a heraldic dolphin with a wavy bar below, all in relief. The rest of the column is plain, and the ventilator cap is missing.

Sources

Legal

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