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Latitude: 51.4463 / 51°26'46"N
Longitude: -2.6173 / 2°37'2"W
OS Eastings: 357194
OS Northings: 172108
OS Grid: ST571721
Mapcode National: GBR C3N.2C
Mapcode Global: VH88M.LX53
Plus Code: 9C3VC9WM+G3
Entry Name: Machine Shop
Listing Date: 30 December 1994
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1218669
English Heritage Legacy ID: 380747
ID on this website: 101218669
Location: Hotwells, Bristol, BS1
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Hotwells and Harbourside
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: Clifton Holy Trinity with St Andrew the Less and St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Architectural structure Building
BRISTOL
ST5772 UNDERFALL YARD, Floating Harbour
901-1/41/1314 (South side)
Machine shop
GV II*
Machine shop. c1885. Extended early C20. Brick with a tiled
double-pile hipped roof. Open plan. Single storey, with a
2-storey; 2-window C20 extension. A plain shed with corbelled
eaves, sliding doors at each end, with a hipped C20 office
extension along the left-hand end with a 7-window-range return
elevation of metal casements. An octagonal chimney attached to
the right-hand return.
INTERIOR: comprises boiler and engine houses, blacksmith's and
engineer's shops. Much original machinery survives, including
steam-powered plant from the mid 1880's, for planing,
slotting, punching-and-shearing, a long-bed lathe and steam
hammer, wall-mounted line shafting and a Tangye horizontal
engine and Cornish boiler.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built on land reclaimed behind Jessops' 1809
Floating Harbour dam, and named after Brunel's Under Fall
culvert of 1832 for removing silt into the New Cut. '..nowhere
else is the essential character of the dock landcape preserved
so completely' (Lord and Southam).
(BIAS Journal: Bristol: 1968-: 20; Lord J and Southam J: The
Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 66).
Listing NGR: ST5719472108
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