Alexandra Dock: Walls, Lock Gates, Graving Docks, Extension Dock

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA12NW HEDON ROAD 680-1/9/150 (South side (off)) 16/08/90 Alexandra Dock: walls, lock gates, graving docks, extension dock (Formerly Listed as: HEDON ROAD (South side (off)) Alexandra Dock, comprising the dock walls, Graving docks and Extension Dock)

GV II

Dock. 1880-85, extended 1899. Designed by James Abernethy and supervised by Oldham & Bonn, for the Hull & Barnsley Railway Co. Ashlar stonework and Portland Cement concrete. The dock walls are slightly battered and extend downwards approx 12m. The top 4m is faced with large ashlar blocks with rounded coping. The dock is rectangular in plan, approx 700m x 300m with a deep lock entrance on the south side with 3 pairs of steel lock gates, the outer pair renewed 1927-28, the central pair constructed 1957 and installed 1958. To the east, 3 jetties extend northward into the dock; this area was the timber yard. On the east side, the entrance to the extension dock, which was added in 1899. The north side has 2 graving docks at the north-east corner, with stepped sides and access stairs. The west side has a single central projecting jetty. The dock was constructed as a general cargo dock and as an outlet for the South Yorkshire coalfields.

Listing NGR: TA1242028920