Generator house at Barlowfold is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Generator house.
Generator house at Barlowfold
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-wicket-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- Generator house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 April 2024 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ 98 SW 3/112
POYNTON-WITH-WORTH C.P. LONDON ROAD NORTH (West Side) Generator house at Barlowfold
II
Generator house: circa 1880 probably for W A Turner. Pre-cast concrete sections. One-storey, symmetrical, two-bay south front. Nine-pane iron casements. Interior: A steel pipe ducts water from the former mill leat through a turbine electric generator by W Gunther of Oldham and out beneath the house. The switchgear for both AC and DC generation is against the south wall.
W A Turner was an early pioneer of the use of electric light in his Cotton Mills and an active director of the Edison Electric Light Co. and this installation supplied Barlowfold, a house he occupied in 1881.
Listing NGR: SJ9204384947
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