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Latitude: 50.3698 / 50°22'11"N
Longitude: -4.1825 / 4°10'57"W
OS Eastings: 244885
OS Northings: 54485
OS Grid: SX448544
Mapcode National: GBR R3Q.HC
Mapcode Global: FRA 2842.0CV
Plus Code: 9C2Q9R98+WX
Entry Name: Main Dock Pumphouse (S 87 and 89)
Listing Date: 13 August 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378514
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476464
ID on this website: 101378514
Location: Morice Town, Plymouth, Devon, PL1
County: City of Plymouth
Electoral Ward/Division: Devonport
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Plymouth
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SX 4454 SE PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard
740-1/97/214 Main Dock Pumphouse (5 87 and 89)
GV II
Hydraulic pumping station. Dated 1851, possibly by William Scamp, R E. limestone ashlar in alternate thick and thin courses with granite dressings and leaded roof. Engine house with square accumulator tower at S end.
EXTERIOR: single storey; windowless engine house, 2-storey; 2-bay tower. Engine house has a cornice, blocking course and pedimented N gable with a louvred oculus and ball finials with a central square section. The windowless E side has a right-hand doorway with raised surround and C20 door, gable has a right-hand recessed bay with corbel table and small-paned cross windows, the rest of the gable has an inserted mid C20 steel lintel with 4 ground- and first-floor casements. The tower has a corbelled cornice, an attic storey with moulded eaves coping and sunken panels with 4 oculi in each and a ball finial; tall recessed bays as that in the gable with cross windows, and ashlar panels between the storeys with VR in the S side and 1851 in the N side. In the NW corner is a truncated square chimney.
INTERIOR: all machinery removed; contains a metal-framed roof. HISTORY: in the same style as many of the North Yard buildings including the Quadrangle ( qv), it powered hydraulic cranes, capstans and dock lock gates. Hydraulic power was being introduced into docks from the 18505, and this is one of the earliest surviving examples of a pumping station of this type in any dockyard.
Listing NGR: SX4488554485
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