Dock Office at North End of Hudson Dock With Hydraulic Accumulator, Walls and Piers
DOCK OFFICE AT NORTH END OF HUDSON DOCK WITH HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR, WALLS AND PIERS, HUDSON DOCK NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279893
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Dock Office at North End of Hudson Dock With Hydraulic Accumulator, Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- DOCK OFFICE AT NORTH END OF HUDSON DOCK WITH HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR, WALLS AND PIERS, HUDSON DOCK NORTH
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279893
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Dock Office at North End of Hudson Dock With Hydraulic Accumulator, Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOCK OFFICE AT NORTH END OF HUDSON DOCK WITH HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR, WALLS AND PIERS, HUDSON DOCK NORTH
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:
- DOCK OFFICE AT NORTH END OF HUDSON DOCK WITH HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR, WALLS AND PIERS, HUDSON DOCK NORTH
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 41041 57706
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ4157 HUDSON DOCK NORTH 920-1/13/117 (North side) 10/11/78 Dock Office at N end of Hudson Dock with hydraulic accumulator, walls & piers (Formerly Listed as: HUDSON DOCK NORTH The Dock Office)
GV II
Dock office and walls and piers attached. 1850. By John Murray. For Sunderland Dock Company. Hydraulic accumulator inserted c1875 for swing bridge, designed by Sir W Armstrong & Co, for River Wear Commission. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar sandstone dressings and tower; Welsh slate roof with ashlar chimney. Modified Baroque style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3x3 bays with E staircase wing and SE tower. N elevation has alternate block surrounds and projecting flat stone lintels to double doors with overlight at centre and in left stair wing. Staircase doors panelled. Similar jambs and projecting flat sills and lintels to ground-floor windows. First floor and first floor sill bands. First-floor windows have lugged architraves with raised voussoirs, the central rising as key across entablature. Sashes with glazing bars, in left bay and over door replaced with casements. Rusticated quoins; top entablature with gutter cornice and blocking course. Low-pitched hipped roof has corniced ridge chimney. Right return has central upper window blocked, and fire door inserted with external fire escape; sashes with glazing bars in left bay which now contains hydraulic accumulator for swing bridge. Rear left return has tower with slit lights and clock faces in top stage below bracketed cornice and blocking course. INTERIOR shows ground floor house and first floor office, now all offices; panelled doors with architraves; some original chimney pieces and simple stucco decoration. Hydraulic accumulator inserted behind first right return bay has walls apparently of wood which may be concrete with shuttering marking, and retains machinery. Tower stair to clock chamber, now used for access to dock traffic lights, has renewed balustrade with a few original stick balusters but handrail renewed in straight sections. High stone yard wall with ashlar coping on left return encloses triangular area between stair and tower and has entrance with two square piers with flat stone coping, one damaged. Adjacent swing bridge (qv) has original machinery but is now not operated by this hydraulic accumulator. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 18; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 17).
Listing NGR: NZ4104157706
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391498
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 17
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983)
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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