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© Mr Michael Perry
IoE Number:
380745
Location:
CHIMNEY OF HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE, APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES NORTH OF ENGINE HOUSE, UNDERFALL YARD
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Mr Michael Perry
Date Photographed:
23 May 2006
Date listed:
18 February 1972
Date of last amendment:
30 December 1994
Grade
II*
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BRISTOL
ST5772 UNDERFALL YARD, Floating Harbour
901-1/41/1312 Chimney of hydraulic engine house,
18/02/72 approximately 2 metres north of
engine house
(Formerly Listed as:
UNDERFALL YARD
Hydraulic engine house)
GV II*
Hydraulic engine house chimney. 1888. Brick and terracotta.
Detached octagonal chimney stack with a flared terracotta cap.
Drew the boiler furnace for the Engine House steam engine
(qv). Part of the complete group of docks buildings built on
the Underfall Yard in the mid 1880s. Powered the extensive
hydraulic system within the Docks. '..nowhere else is the
essential character of the dock landscape preserved so
completely' (Lord and Southam).
(Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-:
64).