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Coal Drops at Halifax Station Goods Yard

A Grade II Listed Building in Halifax, Calderdale

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7225 / 53°43'20"N

Longitude: -1.853 / 1°51'10"W

OS Eastings: 409798

OS Northings: 425128

OS Grid: SE097251

Mapcode National: GBR HTHD.MB

Mapcode Global: WHC9M.HPVN

Plus Code: 9C5WP4CW+XR

Entry Name: Coal Drops at Halifax Station Goods Yard

Listing Date: 28 September 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1272545

English Heritage Legacy ID: 447656

ID on this website: 101272545

Location: Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, HX1

County: Calderdale

Electoral Ward/Division: Town

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Halifax

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Halifax The Minster Church of St John the Baptist

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


BERRY LANE SE 0925 SE (south west side) 679-/10/10041 Coal Drops at Halifax Station Goods Yard II Coal drops. 1874. Built for the Ovenden and Halifax Junction Railway Co. Rock-faced ashlar with wooden bunkers. 15 wooden bunkers each supported between stone piers and to the north an open shed, with beyond a battered wall topped with a parapet. These coal drops are built into the sloping hillside. Each wooden bunker has 2 metal doors which were raised on an iron ratchet geared pulley system. This is a rare and large scale example of railway coaldrops.

Listing NGR: SE0979825128

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