Engine House And Boiler House At Ryhope Pumping Station

SUNDERLAND

NZ45SW STOCKTON ROAD, Ryhope 920-1/7/260 (West side (off)) 19/06/74 Engine house and boiler house at Ryhope Pumping Station (Formerly Listed as: RYHOPE Main building with chimney to Ryhope Pumping Station)

GV II*

Engine house and boiler house for water pumping station. 1866-9. By Thomas Hawksley. For the Sunderland and South Shields Water Co. English bond brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and shingle ventilator roof. EXTERIOR: engine house 2 high storeys and basement, 4x1 windows; boiler house attached to W one storey, 4 windows. Engine house gable to E has brick parapet walls with ashlar coping to side steps to panelled door in 2-storey corniced projection; ashlar doorcase of panelled pilasters has semicircular overlight in high entablature with cornice breaking forward over key and pilasters and with finials on pilasters and on long keystone. Blank panel above door; 3-light window above; modillioned cornice. Above cornice, in recessed plane, a stepped 3-light window in gable peak. Giant corniced angle pilasters support projection at edge of shaped gable which rises to obelisk finial. Returns have longer windows on ground floor with corniced surrounds and central ball finials, smaller above with long keystones, in bays defined by giant pilasters with continuous cornice and finials on stepped panels above pilasters. Rear gable corresponds to that at front. All windows have stone mullions and transoms. Roof has high central ridge octagonal louvred ventilator with swept eaves to tall conical shingle roof. Boiler house attached to rear gable has 4 cross gables, shaped and with finials, on pilasters with cornices which support gable-edge projection. Recessed plane in each gable contains doors in keyed elliptical stone surrounds on S, except for high plain stone lintel over renewed door in 3rd from E, and 2-light windows on N, each side with small slits in gable peaks. INTERIOR contains complete pumping equipment with original engines by R & W Hawthorne, and boilers of 1908. A fine example of the work of a great engineer, with engines made by one of the first engine manufacturers of the region. Cared for by The Ryhope Engines Trust and the machinery still operated occasionally for demonstration purposes, but the water no longer pumped by these engines. A Scheduled Ancient Monument. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 19).

Listing NGR: NZ4038052462