Hydraulic Engine House is a Grade II* listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1972. A Victorian Engine house.

Hydraulic Engine House

WRENN ID: deep-quoin-bracken
Grade: II*
Local Planning Authority: Bristol, City of
Country: England
Date first listed: 18 February 1972
Type: Engine house
Period: Victorian
Source: Historic England listing

Description

BRISTOL

ST5772 UNDERFALL YARD, Floating Harbour 901-1/41/1313 Hydraulic engine house 18/02/72

GV II*

Engine house. 1888. Red brick with a slate roof. Single-depth plan. Single storey; 6-window range. Left-hand semicircular-arched doorway, and 5 semicircular-arched windows with matching arched cills, to cast-iron windows with glazing bars. Square 2-stage accumulator tower set back to the right has an arched doorway and an oval window above, and a machicolated parapet. INTERIOR: hydraulic pumping machinery dated 1907 by Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay of Paisley, and workshop in the right end. Powers the docks hydraulic system of cranes, bridges and locks. (Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 64).

Listing NGR: ST5714372168

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