NEWBURN PUMPING STATION

NEWBURN PUMPING STATION, GRANGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186050
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: NEWBURN PUMPING STATION
Statutory Address:: NEWBURN PUMPING STATION, GRANGE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186050
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: NEWBURN PUMPING STATION
Statutory Address 1:: NEWBURN PUMPING STATION, GRANGE ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NEWBURN PUMPING STATION, GRANGE ROAD

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

District:: Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 15960 65589

Details

NZ 16 NE NEWBURN GRANGE ROAD (west end, off) Newburn

7/29 Newburn pumping station

II

Pumping station. 1854-5; engineer Robert Nicholson, built by R.Cail for Whittle Dene Water Co. Rock-faced sandstone with vermiculate dressings and quoins; Welsh slate roof. 2 blocks; 2 storeys, 2 x 1 bays and one high storey, 2 x 4 bays attached to west. 2-storey block: round-headed ground floor openings with alternate-block jambs and keystones; double door in east end with diagonal boarding under boarded infill; sill under flat stone lintels. Eaves band and gutter cornice. Hipped roof. Lower building in similar style. Source: R.W. Rennison, Water to Tyneside, Newcastle 1979 pp 70, 71, 79. Historical note: part of works designed to improve the water supply, by taking water from gravel beds, after the 1853 cholera epidemic.

Listing NGR: NZ1596065589

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Legacy System number:: 304350
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Rennison, R W, Water to Tyneside, (1979), 70-1, 79

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