Swing Bridge, Lock and Walls of North End of Dock
SWING BRIDGE, LOCK AND WALLS OF NORTH END OF DOCK, HUDSON DOCK NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207097
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Swing Bridge, Lock and Walls of North End of Dock
- Statutory Address:
- SWING BRIDGE, LOCK AND WALLS OF NORTH END OF DOCK, HUDSON DOCK NORTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207097
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Swing Bridge, Lock and Walls of North End of Dock
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWING BRIDGE, LOCK AND WALLS OF NORTH END OF DOCK, HUDSON DOCK NORTH
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:
- SWING BRIDGE, LOCK AND WALLS OF NORTH END OF DOCK, HUDSON DOCK NORTH
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 41023 57695
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ4157 HUDSON DOCK NORTH 920-1/13/118 (North side) 26/11/90 Swing-bridge, lock and walls of north end of Dock
GV II
Also known as: Gladstone Bridge HUDSON DOCK. Swing-bridge with walls, abutments and lock. c1875. For the River Wear Commissioners. Hydraulic machinery by Sir W Armstrong & Co., Elswick. Ashlar walls and abutments; steel lock gate, replaced 1955; riveted steel girder bridge, known as Hog-back bridge, the E end within a curved stone wall and the W end lying against an extension of that wall when the bridge is open to dock. When the bridge is closed to the dock, forming a roadway across the north end, the west end of the bridge rests on a stone abutment. Driven by engines and accumulator housed in the adjacent dock office (qv), now used as various offices. Shown on 1875 official plan of docks. An early example of a swing-bridge and of the hydraulic technology invented and developed by Sir William Armstrong. (Sinclair NT: Railways of Sunderland: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1986-: 60 (MAP)).
Listing NGR: NZ4102357695
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391499
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sinclair, N T, Railways of Sunderland, (1986), 60
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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