Description

919/0/10052
08-APR-03

ALDER STREET
Hillhouse
(East side)
Railway Coal Chutes and Tramway with
Walls and Gates

II

Forty Coal chutes or drops. 1900. Built by the London & North Western Railway for the Huddersfield Corporation Tramways. Timber, iron and blue engineering brick with ashlar dressings.
Rubble stone boundary wall has two broad gateways each with 2 square gate-piers topped with pyramidal ashlar caps. Either side curved rubble stone retaining walls rise to height of the chutes with single tall square stone piers at each corner.
40 coal chutes are each divided by solid blue brick piers with ashlar banding. Timber structure and top decking has iron chutes which are operated by visible cogs and gearing.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26388377

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)