Roker Pier and Lighthouse With Railings, Lamp Standards and Part of Promenade
ROKER PIER AND LIGHTHOUSE WITH RAILINGS, LAMP STANDARDS AND PART OF PROMENADE, ROKER TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279906
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Roker Pier and Lighthouse With Railings, Lamp Standards and Part of Promenade
- Statutory Address:
- ROKER PIER AND LIGHTHOUSE WITH RAILINGS, LAMP STANDARDS AND PART OF PROMENADE, ROKER TERRACE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279906
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Roker Pier and Lighthouse With Railings, Lamp Standards and Part of Promenade
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROKER PIER AND LIGHTHOUSE WITH RAILINGS, LAMP STANDARDS AND PART OF PROMENADE, ROKER TERRACE
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:
- ROKER PIER AND LIGHTHOUSE WITH RAILINGS, LAMP STANDARDS AND PART OF PROMENADE, ROKER TERRACE
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 41074 58896
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ45NW ROKER TERRACE 920-1/5/182 (East side (off)) Roker Pier and Lighthouse with railings, lamp standards and part of promenade
GV II
Pier and lighthouse with lamp standards and railings; short continuation of structure along promenade. 1885-1903. First recommendations by Sir John Coode 1876, amended by River Wear Commission engineer Henry Hay Wake in 1882. Rubble and cement foundation with red and white granite pier and lighthouse; cast-iron railings. Curved plan pier approx 900 metres long, extending from parapet approx 100 metres to N along promenade and from wall in quadrant curve to S. Rock-faced battered red pier walls with ashlar coping of large white granite blocks extend northwards from pier to round-coped parapet on promenade, with railings linking higher sections, and southwards to curved wall with steps to beach. Steps up to round platform of lighthouse with incurving walls of smooth white and rock-faced red bands; iron gallery to high lantern with secondary gallery and domed top. Plain stone surround to steps and metal door in S and to 4 recessed fixed lights, one in each band of colour, those set in red granite having alternate block white jambs, the top 3 lights with glazing bars and the lowest blocked. Railings along pier from Promenade to pier gate are tapered and round, with lozenges at centre and top pierced to hold renewed rails, and are bolted to the pier; some lamposts of same design incorporated. Seaward half of railings renewed except for those around lighthouse. Foundation stone 14 September 1885 and completion recorded on stone dated 23 September 1903, Engineer Henry Hay Wake M Inst CE for River Wear Commissioners, set in lightouse. This was the only one of the two piers begun by Wake to be completed, the new S Pier being abandoned shortly after. In 1903 this was the most powerful port light in the country. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 19).
Listing NGR: NZ4107458896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391560
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 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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