North Pier With Crane Attached and Lighthouse
NORTH PIER WITH CRANE ATTACHED AND LIGHTHOUSE, PIER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025352
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- North Pier With Crane Attached and Lighthouse
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH PIER WITH CRANE ATTACHED AND LIGHTHOUSE, PIER ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-08-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/00188/31
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025352
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- North Pier With Crane Attached and Lighthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH PIER WITH CRANE ATTACHED AND LIGHTHOUSE, PIER ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH PIER WITH CRANE ATTACHED AND LIGHTHOUSE, PIER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 37799 69194
Details
TYNEMOUTH PIER ROAD (south end)
NZ 36 NE and NZ 3769 SW
Tynemouth
10/111
& 8/111 North Pier with crane attached
and Lighthouse.
G.V. II
Pier and lighthouse. 1854-1895; partly rebuilt in 1909. Engineers W.A. Brookes to
1858, J. F. Ure from 1858, and P.J. Messent from 1862, for Tyne Improvement
Commissioners. Rock-faced stone pier and north shelter wall, iron crane. Painted
rendered ashlar lighthouse with glass lantern. Pier c900 metres long. Tall tapered lighthouse, on round platform, has recessed door in south side. The crane is not of special interest.
Sources: J. Guthrie The River Tyne (1880); R. W. Johnson The Making of the Tyne (Newcastle 1895).
Listing NGR: NZ3779969194
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303357
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Guthrie, J, The River Tyne, (1880)
Johnson, RW, The Making of the Tyne, (1895)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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