Engine House and Boiler House at Ryhope Pumping Station
ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE AT RYHOPE PUMPING STATION, STOCKTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218116
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House and Boiler House at Ryhope Pumping Station
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE AT RYHOPE PUMPING STATION, STOCKTON ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218116
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House and Boiler House at Ryhope Pumping Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE AT RYHOPE PUMPING STATION, STOCKTON 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:
- ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE AT RYHOPE PUMPING STATION, STOCKTON 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 40380 52462
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ45SW STOCKTON ROAD, Ryhope 920-1/7/260 (West side (off)) 19/06/74 Engine house and boiler house at Ryhope Pumping Station (Formerly Listed as: RYHOPE Main building with chimney to Ryhope Pumping Station)
GV II*
Engine house and boiler house for water pumping station. 1866-9. By Thomas Hawksley. For the Sunderland and South Shields Water Co. English bond brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and shingle ventilator roof. EXTERIOR: engine house 2 high storeys and basement, 4x1 windows; boiler house attached to W one storey, 4 windows. Engine house gable to E has brick parapet walls with ashlar coping to side steps to panelled door in 2-storey corniced projection; ashlar doorcase of panelled pilasters has semicircular overlight in high entablature with cornice breaking forward over key and pilasters and with finials on pilasters and on long keystone. Blank panel above door; 3-light window above; modillioned cornice. Above cornice, in recessed plane, a stepped 3-light window in gable peak. Giant corniced angle pilasters support projection at edge of shaped gable which rises to obelisk finial. Returns have longer windows on ground floor with corniced surrounds and central ball finials, smaller above with long keystones, in bays defined by giant pilasters with continuous cornice and finials on stepped panels above pilasters. Rear gable corresponds to that at front. All windows have stone mullions and transoms. Roof has high central ridge octagonal louvred ventilator with swept eaves to tall conical shingle roof. Boiler house attached to rear gable has 4 cross gables, shaped and with finials, on pilasters with cornices which support gable-edge projection. Recessed plane in each gable contains doors in keyed elliptical stone surrounds on S, except for high plain stone lintel over renewed door in 3rd from E, and 2-light windows on N, each side with small slits in gable peaks. INTERIOR contains complete pumping equipment with original engines by R & W Hawthorne, and boilers of 1908. A fine example of the work of a great engineer, with engines made by one of the first engine manufacturers of the region. Cared for by The Ryhope Engines Trust and the machinery still operated occasionally for demonstration purposes, but the water no longer pumped by these engines. A Scheduled Ancient Monument. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 19).
Listing NGR: NZ4038052462
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391598
- 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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