Description

ELLESMERE PORT & NESTON DOCK STREET
SJ 4077
7/21 Former Gasworks, Chain
Shop, Foundry and Canal
12.9.78 Workshops (formerly
listed as Old Gas Works,
Chain Shop and Work
Shop)
GV II
Part of former gasworks (1863) and chain shop, foundry and workshops (c.1895)
form a long roughly L-shaped building. GASWORKS: (North West Wing) is of one
tall storey, 7 bays on outer (north) face, 4 within. Red brick recessed panels
with blue brick surrounds, each panel containing a round or camber-arched
window. Slate roof with stone-capped end gables. Large square chimney from
eaves level at north corner. CHAIN SHOP AND FOUNDRY: (North Part of Southern
Wing). Red-brown brick walls and slate roof with rooflights and slate-roofed
wooden louvred ventilator along ridge. Weather-boarded north-east wall to
chain shop. Small cast-iron windows under 2 course camber-arches of brick
headers. Boarded access doors face slipway (north east). 8 chimneys over
forges (which, with foundry implements, survive in building). Through passage
south of chain shop to slipway. TWO-STOREY WORKSHOPS: (South Part of Southern
Wing). Red-brown brick walls and slate roof with end gables and continuous
rooflights. 2 square brick chimneys on ridge. External wooden staircase
(north east side) leading to access balconies, on iron brackets, to upper floor.
Floors and roof step down (from south to north) to accommodate slope of site.
Small-pane cast-iron windows to north-east side of lower storey. Boarded load-
ing doors to lower storey, north-east side, and to both storeys (with small
loading balcony) in south gable.

Listing NGR: SJ4064377213

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26439008

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