Gates and Gate Piers at Entrance to Humbledon Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. Gates and gate piers.

Gates and Gate Piers at Entrance to Humbledon Pumping Station

WRENN ID
gaunt-casement-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sunderland
Constituency
Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1994
Type
Gates and gate piers
Address
Gates and Gate Piers at Entrance to Humbledon Pumping Station, Seaforth Road
OS grid reference
NZ 381 552
Coordinates
54.89037, -1.40621
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gates and gate piers at the entrance to Humbledon Pumping Station were built around 1846 by Thomas Hawksley. They are made of ashlar and feature wrought-iron gates. The wide square piers have low pyramidal coping and are plain, except for a deep concave recess on the inner rear corner designed to hold the gates. The gates are adorned with spiral finials on the hinge side uprights, which have shaped projections to support the top rail. A similar projection is present on the central upright, which also features a spear-head finial. Additionally, dog bars rise through the double central rails. The gates were noted to be slightly damaged at the time of the survey.

Local climate

Gates and Gate Piers at Entrance to Humbledon Pumping Station sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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