Archaeology Notes

Event ID 729150

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27NE 849 26306 75159

For adjacent tramway power standards (in Dryden Street, on feeder route into the rear entrance of the depot), see NT27NE 850.

Works [NAT]

OS 1:1250 map, 1983.

(Location cited as NT 263 572). Shrubhill Tramway Workshops and Power Station, Dryden Street, power station opened 1898. A tall 8-bay, 1-storey and basement ashlar block, 3 wide single-storey bays, and a single-storey, 4-bay rubble block with round-headed windows and 8 circular windows. All these have roof-ridge ventilators. The complex is dominated by an octagonal brick chimney, with decorated top section on a square masonry base. The power station housed the haulage engines for cable-tramway operations.

J R Hume 1976.