Accumulator Tower In Albert Edward Dock is a Grade II* listed building in the North Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Hydraulic tower.

Accumulator Tower In Albert Edward Dock

WRENN ID: far-corner-woodpecker
Grade: II*
Local Planning Authority: North Tyneside
Country: England
Date first listed: 19 February 1986
Type: Hydraulic tower
Source: Historic England listing

Description

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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