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Latitude: 53.5834 / 53°35'0"N
Longitude: -0.0711 / 0°4'15"W
OS Eastings: 527792
OS Northings: 411379
OS Grid: TA277113
Mapcode National: GBR WWY0.D5
Mapcode Global: WHHHS.W6B6
Plus Code: 9C5XHWMH+9H
Entry Name: Hydraulic Accumulator Tower to West of the Dock Tower
Listing Date: 31 October 1974
Last Amended: 30 June 1999
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379871
English Heritage Legacy ID: 479306
ID on this website: 101379871
Location: Prince Albert Gardens, North East Lincolnshire, DN31
County: North East Lincolnshire
Electoral Ward/Division: East Marsh
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Grimsby
Traditional County: Lincolnshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lincolnshire
Church of England Parish: Great Grimsby St Andrew with St Luke and All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Lincoln
Tagged with: Tower
GRIMSBY
TA2711SE ROYAL DOCK, The Docks
699-1/5/130 Hydraulic Accumulator Tower to west
31/10/74 of the Dock Tower
(Formerly Listed as:
THE DOCKS
Tower on opposite pier to west of
main Dock Tower)
GV II*
Hydraulic accumulator tower. 1892 for The Grimsby Dock
Company. Red-brown brick with ashlar dressings.
EXTERIOR: square tower 78 ft tall. Single stage. Round-headed
door to south side. Each side has a full-height panel with
chamfered brick reveals to the bottom and sides and a
dentilled and chamfered cornice to the top. Each panel
contains 4 tiers of narrow twin round-headed openings with
stone sills, chamfered jambs and rubbed-brick arches. One of
the second-tier openings on the west side has C20 blocking.
East and west sides have small single stone panel between and
below the second tier of openings, and a central vertical row
of iron fixing bolts. Stone band. Top section with imitation
machicolations and brick-coped parapet with pointed arched
crenellations, the corner ones with ashlar caps.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: this accumulator tower was built to provide
high-pressure hydraulic power to move the gates to the east
and west locks to the Royal Dock (qv), and to power dockside
machinery. It largely superseded the earlier Dock Tower (qv).
The design of its cap echoes that of the earlier tower. It was
superseded in 1980 by an electrically-driven oil-hydraulic
system.
Together, this accumulator tower and the earlier Dock Tower
form a unique and important survival of early hydraulic
systems, illustrating the development in hydraulic power
technology from low-pressure to high-pressure operation.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 343; A guide to the Industrial
Archaeology of Lincolnshire & S.Humbs: Wright NR: Lincoln:
1983-: 16-18; Ambler RW: Great Grimsby Fishing Heritage: a
brief for a trail: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: 21-22).
Listing NGR: TA2779211379
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