ACCUMULATOR TOWER IN ALBERT EDWARD DOCK

ACCUMULATOR TOWER IN ALBERT EDWARD DOCK, HOWDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1354990
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: ACCUMULATOR TOWER IN ALBERT EDWARD DOCK
Statutory Address:: ACCUMULATOR TOWER IN ALBERT EDWARD DOCK, HOWDON ROAD

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Date:: 1999-08-14
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1354990
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: ACCUMULATOR TOWER IN ALBERT EDWARD DOCK
Statutory Address 1:: ACCUMULATOR TOWER IN ALBERT EDWARD DOCK, HOWDON ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ACCUMULATOR TOWER IN ALBERT EDWARD DOCK, HOWDON ROAD

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District:: North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 35302 66941

Details

TYNEMOUTH HOWDON ROAD (south side, off) NZ 36 NE 8/92 Accumulator tower in Albert Edward Dock G.V. II* Hydraulic accumulator tower. 1882 for Tyne Improvement Commissioners. Engineers Ure and Messent. Rock-faced sandstone with quoins, ashlar plinth coping and dressings; Welsh slate roof. 2 high storeys, one bay. Partly-glazed door under rock-faced elliptical arch; similar arches and projecting stone sills to windows, that above door with vertical glazing bars. Windows on east face blocked up. Swept pyramidal roof with railed lookout on top and bargeboarded gable above star-patterned panels, said to have contained clock faces. Interior: high quality sandstone ashlar; iron stair to machinery; hydraulic machinery. Historical note: the only surviving example on the Tyne of hydraulic machinery, first developed at Newcastle by William Armstrong in the 1840s. Unused at time of survey.

Listing NGR: NZ3530266941

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Legacy System number:: 303337
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.