Coal Staithes at Blyth Power Station
COAL STAITHES AT BLYTH POWER STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041382
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Coal Staithes at Blyth Power Station
- Statutory Address:
- COAL STAITHES AT BLYTH POWER STATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041382
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Coal Staithes at Blyth Power Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- COAL STAITHES AT BLYTH POWER STATION
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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:
- COAL STAITHES AT BLYTH POWER STATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Bedlington
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 30612 82999
Details
WANSBECK NORTH BLYTH
NZ 38 SW
6/20 Coal Staithes at
Blyth Power Station
II
Coal Staithes constructed between c.1910-1923 for the North Eastern Railway Company, altered c. 1994.
MATERIALS: timber
The lower level of a set of coal staithes c.375m long of traditional braced timber construction. The structure is formed of substantial timber piles driven into the sea bed carrying a timber deck. The staithes were originally 500m long and comprised three decks with gantries.
HISTORY: Blyth initially developed as a fishing port with ancillary salt pans, but during the later C19 and C20 centuries it became Northumberland's premier coal port and for a brief period in the mid C20 it shipped more coal than any port in Europe. At its peak, the harbour had several sets of staithes, which allowed coal arriving by wagon way and later railway to be dropped from wagons directly into ships. The coal staithes at Blyth power station, known formerly as West Staithes, were the last of the traditional staithes to be built on the River Blyth. Their construction began in c. 1910 for North Eastern Railway Company, but the First World War intervened and they were completed in 1923. The original upper two decks were demolished and the whole structure truncated in 1994/5.
SOURCES:
www.sine.ncl.ac.uk;
www.keystothepast.info;
www.whitehavencoast.co.uk;
S Linsley 'Ports and Harbours of Northumberland', 2005;
N Pevsner 'The Buildings of England: Northumberland', 2nd edition 1992;
Sir N Cossons 'BP Book of Industrial Archaeology', p142, 1993.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235891
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northumberland, (1992)
Linsley, S, Ports and Harbours of Northumberland, (2005)
Cossons, N, BP Book of Industrial Archaeology, (1993), 142
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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