Remaining Walls of North Dock
REMAINING WALLS OF NORTH DOCK, HARBOUR VIEW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207085
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Remaining Walls of North Dock
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINING WALLS OF NORTH DOCK, HARBOUR VIEW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207085
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Remaining Walls of North Dock
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINING WALLS OF NORTH DOCK, HARBOUR VIEW
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:
- REMAINING WALLS OF NORTH DOCK, HARBOUR VIEW
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 40613 58469
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ4058 HARBOUR VIEW 920-1/9/96 (East side (off)) 10/11/78 Remaining walls of North Dock
GV II
The remaining walls of a 6-acre dock. 1834-38. By Isambard Kingdom Brunel. For the Wearmouth Dock Company by Royal Charter. Opened for traffic 1837; 1846 purchased by York and Newcastle Railway Co.; sold by NE Railway in 1922; by 1934 the property of the River Wear Commissioners. Granite ashlar. All the NW, much of the SW and NE, and part of the SE walls of what was originally a square-plan dock with entrance lock gates from tide basin at south. High wall with curved batter and bull-nosed edging; vertical timber buffer strips set in at intervals. Construction was by building one course of back and front walls at a time, filling space with mortar and setting core stones within that mortar so as to ensure a completely solid structure. Part of NE and SE walls survive behind late-C20 landfill. Part of SE wall demolished together with entrance. A significant structure by one of the greatest engineers of the C19. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 18; ).
Listing NGR: NZ4061358469
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391471
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 18
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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