List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: FORMER HYDRAULIC POWER STATION IN GROUNDS OF CITY COLLEGE
List Entry Number: 1254724
Location
FORMER HYDRAULIC POWER STATION IN GROUNDS OF CITY COLLEGE, WATER STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Manchester
District Type: Metropolitan Authority
Parish: Non Civil Parish
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 23-Jul-1992
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 457830
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8398 WATER STREET
698-1/16/426 (West side)
23/07/92 Former Hydraulic Power Station in
grounds of City College
II
Hydraulic power generating station, now part of college
workshops. 1907-9, altered. Red brick with sandstone
dressings, iron reservoirs, slate roof. Built on east bank of
River Irwell. Irregular rectangular plan at right-angles to
river. Baroque style. Two and 3 storeys, in form resembling
nave with aisles, the aisles flat-roofed and surmounted by
large rectangular reservoirs at the end close to the river,
with tower on south side. Asymmetrical 4-bay east gable end,
with stone plinth, banded pilasters, moulded cornice with
parapet ramped up to open-pedimented gable over 3rd bay; tall
segmental-headed windows in 2nd, 3rd and 4th bays, that in the
3rd bay with a doorway beneath, all mullion-and-transomed with
arched lights and small-pane glazing in the heads; pairs of
smaller but similar windows on 2 levels in the 1st bay, and
all these windows with triple keystones; narrow triple-light
window in gable with banded surround and arched lights. Glazed
clerestory; rectangular tower set back behind 1st bay, with
pilasters. West end (overlooking river) has 4 oblong 4-light
windows with glazing like that at the east end, gabled end of
nave over the 2 centre bays and panelled iron reservoirs on
the aisles. One of 3 built as part of system for supplying
hydraulic power to lifts and hoists of commercial warehouses
in city centre; continued in use until 1972. Very unusual
survival.
Listing NGR: SJ8328598315
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Map
National Grid Reference: SJ 83285 98315
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