Cleadon Water Pumping Station, cottage
Cleadon Water Pumping Station, cottage
HER Number
9177
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Cleadon Water Pumping Station, cottage
Place
Cleadon
Map Sheet
NZ36SE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Industrial House
Site Type: Specific
Workers Cottage
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
1860-62, Thomas Hawksley engineer.
Built by the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company and began working in 1862. Brick with stone dressings and rusticated quoins. Hipped slate roofs. The
buildings are in an Italianate Rundbogenstil, the narrow windows mostly alternating
single and coupled. One storey. All buildings have deep overhanging eaves with bow brackets. Completed by 1864. Has a 20th century flat roofed extension to the east.
Built by the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company and began working in 1862. Brick with stone dressings and rusticated quoins. Hipped slate roofs. The
buildings are in an Italianate Rundbogenstil, the narrow windows mostly alternating
single and coupled. One storey. All buildings have deep overhanging eaves with bow brackets. Completed by 1864. Has a 20th century flat roofed extension to the east.
Easting
438700
Northing
563390
Grid Reference
NZ438700563390
Sources
DCMS, List of Buildings of Special Historic and Architectual Interest, 14/68; South Tyneside Council, 2007, Cleadon Hills Conservation Area Character Appraisal; Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd, January 2003, Archaeological Building Recording at Cleadon Waterworks, Cleadon Hill; Dr S.M. Linsley, 1976, Thomas Hawksley and the Steam Powered Water Pumping Stations of the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company in The Cleveland Industrial Archaeologist, No. 6, pages 11-18