Wall and Pier at Lock at North End of Tide Basin
WALL AND PIER AT LOCK AT NORTH END OF TIDE BASIN, NORTH HALF TIDE BASIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207112
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Wall and Pier at Lock at North End of Tide Basin
- Statutory Address:
- WALL AND PIER AT LOCK AT NORTH END OF TIDE BASIN, NORTH HALF TIDE BASIN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207112
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Wall and Pier at Lock at North End of Tide Basin
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALL AND PIER AT LOCK AT NORTH END OF TIDE BASIN, NORTH HALF TIDE BASIN
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:
- WALL AND PIER AT LOCK AT NORTH END OF TIDE BASIN, NORTH HALF TIDE BASIN
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 40882 57809
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ4057 NORTH HALF TIDE BASIN 920-1/12/116 (North side) 26/11/90 Wall and pier at lock at north end of tide basin
GV II
Lock. 1890. For the River Wear Commissioners. Steel gates (replaced 1955) and ashlar walls; hydraulic machinery. High ashlar walls and central pier; two sets of gates. Lock installed at the same time as the swing bridge between the half tide basin and Hudson Dock North (qv) and operated by the same engine and accumulator housed in the Dock Office (qv). An early example of dock machinery operated by the hydraulic system which Sir William Armstrong invented and developed. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 18; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 17).
Listing NGR: NZ4088257809
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391541
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 17
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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