Fulwell Water Pumping Station Engine House and Boiler House With Steps Attached
FULWELL WATER PUMPING STATION ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE WITH STEPS ATTACHED, SHIELDS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207128
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Fulwell Water Pumping Station Engine House and Boiler House With Steps Attached
- Statutory Address:
- FULWELL WATER PUMPING STATION ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE WITH STEPS ATTACHED, SHIELDS ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207128
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Fulwell Water Pumping Station Engine House and Boiler House With Steps Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- FULWELL WATER PUMPING STATION ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE WITH STEPS ATTACHED, SHIELDS ROAD
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:
- FULWELL WATER PUMPING STATION ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE WITH STEPS ATTACHED, SHIELDS ROAD
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 38923 60616
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ36SE SHIELDS ROAD, Fulwell 920-1/1/252 (West side) 10/11/78 Fulwell Water Pumping Station engine house and boiler house with steps attached (Formerly Listed as: SHIELDS ROAD (West side) Fulwell Pumping Station)
GV II
Engine and boiler house to water pumping station with steps attached. 1852. By Thomas Hawksley. Brick, diaper work in tower, with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with ridge copings. C13 fortified Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2-storey, 4-window engine house; 2 boiler house ranges of one storey. Ashlar coping of plinth contiues along dwarf walls flanking steps up to boarded double N door of engine house. High door has elaborate wrought-iron hinges; pointed arched surround has deep roll mouldings, the central interrupted by foliage capitals, and ball-flower stopped dripmould. Buttresses with large irregular quoins have 2 coped set-backs, the second just above coped set-back to first floor level; three 4-centred-arched lights in irregular stone jambs on first floor under one flat stone lintel; corbel table above to coped parapet which rises from buttresses. Steeply pitched hipped roof with roll-moulded ridge coping. Returns have similar end and central buttresses, set-back first floor and corbelled parapet, and lancets on ground floor and 4-centred lights above; 4 windows on right return, 3 on left return, the SE square tower abutting at left end. Tower has high stepped plinth; irregular quoins; diaper pattern brickwork; lancets in full-height first stage; roof removed. 2 boiler house ranges at right angles to engine house have 4-centred-arched entrances on E side, paired shouldered lights on W with trefoils above, under gables; roofs have decorative terracotta ridge cresting. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 19).
Listing NGR: NZ3892360616
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391588
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 19
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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