Humbledon Pumping Station
HUMBLEDON PUMPING STATION, SEAFORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279871
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Humbledon Pumping Station
- Statutory Address:
- HUMBLEDON PUMPING STATION, SEAFORTH ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01201/30
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279871
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Humbledon Pumping Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- HUMBLEDON PUMPING STATION, SEAFORTH 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:
- HUMBLEDON PUMPING STATION, SEAFORTH 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 38209 55220
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3855 SEAFORTH ROAD 920-1/15/201 (South West side) 10/11/78 Humbledon Pumping Station
GV II
Water pumping station. 1846 and later. By Thomas Hawksley; from 1852 for the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company. English garden wall bond brick (3 and one) with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof. 2 high storeys, 2x1 windows to engine house; double range boiler house one high storey, 3 windows. Italianate style. NE elevation has engine house at right: ashlar-coped dwarf walls flank steps up to boarded door and overlight in plain jambs with triple-keyed plain stone surround to semicircular head on impost blocks; wedge stone lintel and projecting stone sill to blocked square window above. Boiler house on ground falling to left has stone voussoirs and triple key to high arch at right, next to engine house, and 3 blocked windows at high level with wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Right return of engine house has 2 round-headed windows with surrounds similar to that of door, and to square windows above similar to those on NE; diagonal buttress between ground floor windows is of large ashlar blocks. SW elevation a mirror image of NE but with shorter steps, and with rectangular hole at top right of engine house. This was the first of a series of pumping stations designed by Hawksley, and continued by his son, to pump water through the magnesian limestone to provide the first good water supply for Sunderland. All windows blocked, boiler house chimney removed and pumping station out of use at time of survey. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 74; Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 19).
Listing NGR: NZ3820955220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391586
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 74
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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