SWING BRIDGE AT EAST SIDE WITH ASHLAR WALLS

SWING BRIDGE AT EAST SIDE WITH ASHLAR WALLS, HUDSON DOCK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279892
Date first listed:: 08-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:: SWING BRIDGE AT EAST SIDE WITH ASHLAR WALLS
Statutory Address:: SWING BRIDGE AT EAST SIDE WITH ASHLAR WALLS, HUDSON DOCK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279892
Date first listed:: 08-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:: SWING BRIDGE AT EAST SIDE WITH ASHLAR WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: SWING BRIDGE AT EAST SIDE WITH ASHLAR WALLS, HUDSON DOCK

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SWING BRIDGE AT EAST SIDE WITH ASHLAR WALLS, HUDSON DOCK

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 41291 57091

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ4157 HUDSON DOCK 920-1/13/119 (East side) 08/02/91 Swing-bridge at east side with ashlar walls

GV II

Swing-bridge and ashlar walls at east side of Hudson Dock, at entrance from former sea lock to former south outlet. Dated 1880 on plaque which also names Henry H Wake, C.E., engineer; River Wear Commission; and Andrew Handyside & Co. Ltd., Contractors, Derby and London. Riveted steel girder construction, Ashlar walls. Asymmetrical hog-back arch, pivoting on north lock wall, the shorter arm to the land and the longer swinging to bridge the lock. Central strut from arch to deck has riveted reinforcing plate at foot and diagonal braces from top to feet of adjacent struts; these struts and diagonal braces are repeated along the whole length. Originally operated by hydraulic machinery made by WL Armstrong & Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne. Founder's plate on inner face of west side lattice metal balustrades have elliptical-headed tubular handrails. Bridge pivots on one ashlar wall to close against the opposite wall.

Listing NGR: NZ4129157091

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Legacy System number:: 391496
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.