Sewer Ventilation Pipe outside 18 Hill Street
Sewer Ventilation Pipe outside 18 Hill Street, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1NR
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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:
- Poole
- 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
Websites
Heritage Assets. Supplementary Planning Document, 2013, accessed 3 May 2023 from Poole Local List SPD 2013.pdf
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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