Newburn Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Pumping station.
Newburn Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- gilded-corbel-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Pumping station
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 16 NE NEWBURN GRANGE ROAD (west end, off) Newburn
7/29 Newburn pumping station
II
Pumping station. 1854-5; engineer Robert Nicholson, built by R.Cail for Whittle Dene Water Co. Rock-faced sandstone with vermiculate dressings and quoins; Welsh slate roof. 2 blocks; 2 storeys, 2 x 1 bays and one high storey, 2 x 4 bays attached to west. 2-storey block: round-headed ground floor openings with alternate-block jambs and keystones; double door in east end with diagonal boarding under boarded infill; sill under flat stone lintels. Eaves band and gutter cornice. Hipped roof. Lower building in similar style. Source: R.W. Rennison, Water to Tyneside, Newcastle 1979 pp 70, 71, 79. Historical note: part of works designed to improve the water supply, by taking water from gravel beds, after the 1853 cholera epidemic.
Listing NGR: NZ1596065589
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