Boat Hoist on South Side of South Dock is a Grade II* listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1986. A Industrial Industrial hoist.
Boat Hoist on South Side of South Dock
- WRENN ID
- silver-facade-vale
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1986
- Type
- Industrial hoist
- Period
- Industrial
- Address
- Boat Hoist on South Side of South Dock, Bridge Street, Goole
- OS grid reference
- SE 742 228
- Coordinates
- 53.69685, -0.87665
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boat hoist on the south side of South Dock, built around 1862, was invented by W H Bartholomew to transfer coal from canal barges into seagoing vessels. The structure features a framework of cast-iron girders supported by ashlar abutments, and it carries weather-boarded cabins and a turret with asphalted roofs. The hoist has a five-stage tower in a pyramidal shape, topped with a semicircular roofed cabin at the fifth stage and a tapering domed turret.
On the east side, there is a tall three-storey compartment with 12-pane Yorkshire sash windows on the first two storeys. At the base, a cradle is submerged below the compartment boat, which is raised by hydraulic cylinders to the third stage. Here, a tipping cylinder tips the compartment boat to project coal down a shoot into the hold of a waiting vessel. Buffers and clamps help rectify the tipped, emptied compartment, which is then returned hydraulically in the cradle back to the water.
The upper cabins and tower house the haulage gear. The compartment boats, known locally as Tom Puddings, are unique to Goole, with originally five hoists built; currently, only two remain, the other being adjacent to Aldam Dock. The hoist was disused at the time of the last survey.
Local climate
Boat Hoist on South Side of South Dock sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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