Sugar Silo is a Grade II* listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. A Post-War Industrial. 1 related planning application.
Sugar Silo
- WRENN ID
- moated-facade-frost
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Country
- England
- Type
- Industrial
- Period
- Post-War
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The following building shall be added:
SJ 39 SW REGENT ROAD
393-/3/10000 NO 173 Sugar Silo
- II*
Sugar silo. 1955-57. Designed by Tate and Lyle's Engineering Department and constructed by Cementation Ltd. Reinforced concrete with pre-stressed concrete floor. Parabolic tunnel vault, rectangular in plan, comprising 12 sections each with 6 external ribs. Loaded via conveyor belts running in a housing which stretches along the top of the structure. Both ends also of ribbed reinforced concrete, with windows and doors. Interior comprises a single unbroken space with a central channel in the floor containing hoppers for the reclamation of the sugar, which dropped onto a conveyor belt in a tunnel beneath. Smooth sides to the vault with a plimsoll line marked along the sides for the guidance of operatives in loading the silo. A rare and impressive example of a reinforced concrete parabolic tunnel vaulted storage silo. Tate and Lyle Times April 1956 pp 10-11; January 1957; January 1958; April 1958 pp 12-13.
Listing NGR: SJ3390193491
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