National Coal Board Central Garage
NATIONAL COAL BOARD CENTRAL GARAGE, VOLTAGE TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299853
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- National Coal Board Central Garage
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL COAL BOARD CENTRAL GARAGE, VOLTAGE TERRACE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299853
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- National Coal Board Central Garage
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL COAL BOARD CENTRAL GARAGE, VOLTAGE 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:
- NATIONAL COAL BOARD CENTRAL GARAGE, VOLTAGE 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 33467 52022
Details
NZ35SW HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING VOLTAGE TERRACE 4/70 Philadelphia.
N.C.B. Central Garage.
G.V. II
Power station, now workshops. Circa 1906 for Durham Collieries Power Company. Yellow brick with red brick dressings; roofing felt. Basement and one high storey; 9 bays x 3. Gable to street : basement in mound; 3 brick panels, containing tall round-headed metal windows with pivoting lights flanking blocked-in vehicle entrance under blocked-in window; 4-keystoned ox-eye window over; gable peak contains group of 7 panels. Left return has vehicle entrance doors to basement; no windows; 18 corbels at original eaves level and dentilled eaves. Interior : cast iron balcony along south side with cast iron staircases to ground and basement. Historical note : incorporated into NESCO system by 1911. Source, S. M. Linsley "Industrial Archaeology of Electricity around Tyne and Wear' in proceedings of the Fourth Institution of Electrical Engineers' Meeting on the History of Electrical Engineering, Durham 1976, pp,ll-18.
Listing NGR: NZ3346752022
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303226
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linsley, S M, Proceedings of the Fourth Institution of Electrical Engineers in Industrial Archaeology Of Electricity Around Tyne And Wear, (1976), 11-18
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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