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Latitude: 53.186 / 53°11'9"N
Longitude: -2.8893 / 2°53'21"W
OS Eastings: 340670
OS Northings: 365802
OS Grid: SJ406658
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.36N9
Mapcode Global: WH88F.L5BW
Plus Code: 9C5V54P6+97
Entry Name: Pumping Station
Listing Date: 23 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375736
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469715
ID on this website: 101375736
Location: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH4
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Pumping station Hydroelectric power station
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
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