Pumping Station And Attached Outbuildings

NZ35SE HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING STONYGATE 5/66 Pumping station and attached outbuildings

G.V. II

Engine house. 1890 by J.E. Wolfe, resident engineer for Sunderland and South Shields Water Company. English bond brick and terracotta; roof of plain tiles. Basement and one high storey : 3 bays x 7. North elevation : central double door, half-glazed, in large round-headed opening containing semi-circular fan- light and bevelled glass panels surrounding door; porch of tall free-standing columns of pink granite,on corniced brick plinths, supporting frieze, cornice and blocking course; 2 tall round-headed sash windows flank door; angle buttresses. Plinth, cill string and impost string. Dentilled brick cornice supports modillions under wide eaves of hipped roof. Small hip under rectangular louvred ventilator with ogee-hipped roof on columns and 2 decorative metal finials. Outbuilding to rear : 6 bays x 5, all windows round-headed; a 3-bay arcade at centre south; double-span roof to 5 west bays has raised glass ventilators, ridge at right- angles over 6th bay has decorative tiles.

Listing NGR: NZ3542251742