TROW ROCK FLOATING PLATFORM

TROW ROCK FLOATING PLATFORM, TROW POINT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232338
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: TROW ROCK FLOATING PLATFORM
Statutory Address:: TROW ROCK FLOATING PLATFORM, TROW POINT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232338
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: TROW ROCK FLOATING PLATFORM
Statutory Address 1:: TROW ROCK FLOATING PLATFORM, TROW POINT

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TROW ROCK FLOATING PLATFORM, TROW POINT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: South Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ3836466665

Details

1. 5102 NZ 36 NE 12/89

TROW POINT Trow Rock Floating Platform

II

2. Casing of Clarke Maxim Disappearing Platform, for 6-inch breech-loading gun. 1887 for the Inspector General of Fortifications, for experimental trial purposes. Mass concrete. Cylindrical shape of approx. 21 feet internal diameter with west extension for approach tunnel. Rough-shuttered exterior. Interior shows runners for steel floating platform (now removed) and entrance to tunnel. Structure is sunk deeply into the ground to accommodate the water upon which the platform rose and fell, actuated by air pressure pumps, and is now largely filled with earth.

Historical note: Trials of platform took place on 15th and 16th December 1887. It was found that the raising and lowering of the platform was too slow and the system was abandoned in favour of the quicker and cheaper Elswick hydro-pneumatic mounting.

Of historical interest as a relic of late C19 artillery development experiments.

Listing NGR: NZ3836466665

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.