Ropery Road, Webster's Ropery

HER Number:
2799

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Ropery Road, Webster's Ropery

Place:
Deptford

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Rope Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific:
Ropery

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Webster's Ropery in Deptford survives as the oldest factory building in Sunderland, a four-storey dressed stone structure of impressive dimensions built in approximately 1797 by Grimshaw Webster and Company. It housed the first steam engine known to have been installed in a ropeworks. It is thought to be the world's first Patent Ropeworks (i.e. not having a rope walk). Although the interior has been substantially altered, the cast iron window frames may well be original. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
438480

Northing:
557840

Grid Reference:
NZ438480557840

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2799 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 8 Tyne and Wear Industrial Monuments Trust, 1978, Sites of Interest in River Plan Area, No.14 I.M. Ayris, & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p.55 Association for Industrial Archaeology, 1977, Webster's Ropery, Sunderland Bulletin, No. 3.4, March 1977 Tyne and Wear Industrial Monuments Trust, 1976, Webster's Ropery, Deptford, Sunderland, In Trust, Issue 2, June 1976