Pumping Station and Attached Outbuildings
PUMPING STATION AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185028
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Pumping Station and Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- PUMPING STATION AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01836/04
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185028
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Pumping Station and Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUMPING STATION AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
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:
- PUMPING STATION AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 35422 51742
Details
NZ35SE HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING STONYGATE 5/66 Pumping station and attached outbuildings
G.V. II
Engine house. 1890 by J.E. Wolfe, resident engineer for Sunderland and South Shields Water Company. English bond brick and terracotta; roof of plain tiles. Basement and one high storey : 3 bays x 7. North elevation : central double door, half-glazed, in large round-headed opening containing semi-circular fan- light and bevelled glass panels surrounding door; porch of tall free-standing columns of pink granite,on corniced brick plinths, supporting frieze, cornice and blocking course; 2 tall round-headed sash windows flank door; angle buttresses. Plinth, cill string and impost string. Dentilled brick cornice supports modillions under wide eaves of hipped roof. Small hip under rectangular louvred ventilator with ogee-hipped roof on columns and 2 decorative metal finials. Outbuilding to rear : 6 bays x 5, all windows round-headed; a 3-bay arcade at centre south; double-span roof to 5 west bays has raised glass ventilators, ridge at right- angles over 6th bay has decorative tiles.
Listing NGR: NZ3542251742
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303222
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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