Engine Pond

Engine Pond, Church Street

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159141
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: Engine Pond
Statutory Address:: Engine Pond, Church Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159141
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: Engine Pond
Statutory Address 1:: Engine Pond, Church Street

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Engine Pond, Church Street

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Etherley
National Grid Reference:: NZ 17106 28324

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30 August 2023 to update the description and to reformat the text to current standards

NZ 12 NE NZ 171283 5/14

ETHERLEY CHURCH STREET (East side, off) High Etherley Engine pond c.20 metres west of former waggonway

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Engine pond. 1825 for the Stockton and Darlington Railway. A circular pond, about 8 metres across, constructed with rubble sandstone walls. There is a small square recess on the west side and a long curved channel on the east side extending towards the line of the railway. The pond (still holding water in 2023) is fed via a stream from the west.

This rare surviving stone structure on the northern section of the railway supplied water for the boilers of the stationary steam engine powering the Etherley Inclines. The engine house, with its boiler, was just south-east of the pond. To the north of the pond is the depression of a second circular pond. The surrounding area, including the listed pond, are included in a Scheduled Monument NHLE 1480892 ‘Stockton & Darlington Railway: Etherley Inclines, summit and upper sections’. See this record for further details.

Sources: W.W. Tomlinson History of the North Eastern Railway, 1914, 2nd. ed; K. Hoole, Newton Abbott 1967, pp 106-9; information D. Wilcock.

Listing NGR: NZ1710628324

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 111379
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hoole, K, Newton Abbott, (1967), 106-9
Tomlinson, W W , The North Eastern Railway its rise and development, (1914)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.