Former Workers Cottages And Stables/Coach House Of Ryhope Pumping Station

The former workers' cottages and coach house of Ryhope Pumping Station were built in 1874 and designed by Thomas Hawksley for the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company. The buildings are made of red brick with Welsh slate roofs and feature ashlar dressings. They have a chamfered ashlar plinth and tall brick stacks with ashlar caps. The structure is two storeys high and includes through-eaves dormers on the upper floor.

The east front has a recessed center with a central two-light window featuring plain sashes. On either side are single doorways topped with hipped-roof hoods supported by curved timber brackets. Above, there is another central two-light window set within an ashlar coped gable, adorned with an ornate iron finial, flanked by small single sashes. The building has projecting gabled two-storey wings on either side, each with single two-light plain sashes on both floors. The gables are finished with ashlar coping, kneelers, and decorative ashlar bands, also topped with ornate iron finials.

The south front features two two-light plain sash windows on each floor, with the upper ones topped by gables. A projecting wing on the south side has two cross-casement windows on the ground floor and a single two-light sash window on the upper floor, also under a gable. The gabled south front includes a coach-house door on the ground floor and another two-light plain sash window above.

The north front has a central brick projecting porch with a hipped slate roof and a 20th-century door, flanked by single two-light plain sashes. Above, there is a small two-light sash window flanked by taller two-light sashes under gables.

These former workers' cottages and coach house are an integral functional and visual part of the Ryhope Pumping Station group, contributing to its overall historical significance.