Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4065 CASTLE DRIVE
1932-1/8/32 (South side)
Pumping Station

II

Hydro-electric generating station, now water company's pumping
station. 1912-13. For Chester City Council, whose Electrical
Engineer was SE Britton: consultant engineer for the
hydro-electric station AC Hurtzig; proposed building designed
under supervision of SE Britton, but re-design more harmonious
with the adjoining Old Dee Bridge prepared by the Chester and
North Wales Architectural Society (accepted by the Electricity
Committee 1.5.1912). Coursed tooled red sandstone.
EXTERIOR: one storey to Castle Drive, flat roof. The simple
front has unpierced stone face to generator hall inscribed in
raised letters on a long stone panel CITY OF CHESTER
HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER STATION : A.D. MCMXIII. A small ashlar
entrance tower, right, has oak 3-leaf folding doors of 3
fielded panels in a Tudor-arched opening; stone parapet. The
west side to the river has leaded lancet in tower, 3
buttressed bays with a pointed-arched spillway in the first
and recessed pointed-arched panels of stone in the second and
third; a weathered string; 2 pairs of leaded lancets to each
bay; a shorter blank end-bay. The east side is similarly
expressed, but with steel eel-traps to inlets and steel
walkway. The south end has a massive walkway-plinth with
sluice, right. Above the plinth a pair of boarded oak doors
with postern in a broad pointed archway.
INTERIOR not inspected.
The power station stands on the site of the medieval Mills of
Dee.
(Chester City Council and Committees: Electricity and
Improvement Committee Minutes: 1911-1913: PASSIM).

Listing NGR: SJ4067065802

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656487

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