Sewer Ventilation Pipe

Mucklestone Wood Lane, Loggerheads, Staffordshire, TF9 4ED

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Overview

Sewer ventilation pipe, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1487222
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-2023
List Entry Name:: Sewer Ventilation Pipe
Statutory Address:: Mucklestone Wood Lane, Loggerheads, Staffordshire, TF9 4ED

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1487222
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-2023
List Entry Name:: Sewer Ventilation Pipe
Location Description:: South side of Mucklestone Wood Lane, approx 110m east of Derwent Drive.
Statutory Address 1:: Mucklestone Wood Lane, Loggerheads, Staffordshire, TF9 4ED

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:: Mucklestone Wood Lane, Loggerheads, Staffordshire, TF9 4ED

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
Parish:: Loggerheads
National Grid Reference:: SJ7452336482

Summary

Sewer ventilation pipe, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Reasons for Designation

The Sewer Ventialtion Pipe at Mucklestone Wood Lane is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural Interest:

* the pipe survives to its full height and so illustrates how it functioned when in use; * it has been designed with visual appeal in mind and displays architectural interest through its proportions and decorative mouldings.

Historic Interest:

* as evidence of the local authority in Newcastle-under-Lyme's response to C19 public health concerns and national legislation on the treatment of waste.

History

Sewer vent pipes or stink pipes functioned by allowing the gases from below ground sewers to vent out and dissipate high above the level at which they would be smelled or breathed in. The Mucklestone Wood Lane vent is located to the south of two properties which appear on the 1880 OS map. By the time of the 1901 OS map, additional properties were located to the south of Mucklestone Wood Lane. However, it is unclear whether this sewer vent was constructed to serve any of these buildings or whether it may have been part of a wider sewer system. Following the 1875 Public Health Act, the local sewers would have been substantially upgraded along the lines of London’s new sewer system of the 1860’s, making a late C19 date likely for this pipe.

Details

A late C19 cast-iron sewer vent pipe.

MATERIALS: cast-iron.

EXTERIOR: the pipe is around 4 metres tall. It has a tapered and fluted base, supporting a plain shaft. Approximately three-quarters of the way up the shaft, is a horizontal band with embossed ball mouldings. The pipe is capped by a collar with the embossed detailing repeated.

Sources

Other
1880 County Map
1924 County Map

Legal

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