Combined Engine and Boiler Houses, Adjacent Coal Store, Engineman's House and Cottage at Cleadon Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the South Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1976. Engine and boiler house. 4 related planning applications.
Combined Engine and Boiler Houses, Adjacent Coal Store, Engineman's House and Cottage at Cleadon Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- shifting-forge-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Tyneside
- Constituency
- South Shields MP: Emma Lewell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1976
- Type
- Engine and boiler house
- Address
- Combined Engine and Boiler Houses, Adjacent Coal Store, Engineman's House and Cottage at Cleadon Pumping Station, Sunniside Lane, Cleadon Park, NE34 8DY
- OS grid reference
- NZ 386 635
- Coordinates
- 54.96508, -1.39754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The combined engine and boiler houses, adjacent coal store, engineman's house, and cottage at Cleadon Pumping Station were built between 1860 and 1862 by engineer Thomas Hawksley for the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company. The buildings began operation in 1862. They are constructed of brick with stone dressings and rusticated quoins, featuring hipped slate roofs. Designed in the Italianate Rundbogenstil style, the buildings have narrow windows that are mostly arranged in alternating single and coupled patterns. The engine house is two storeys tall, while the other structures are single storey. Inside the engine house, the floors are marked by a stone floor band with guilloche decoration. All buildings have deep overhanging eaves supported by bow brackets.
Local climate
Combined Engine and Boiler Houses, Adjacent Coal Store, Engineman's House and Cottage at Cleadon Pumping Station receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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