Roker Pier And Lighthouse With Railings, Lamp Standards And Part Of Promenade

SUNDERLAND

NZ45NW ROKER TERRACE 920-1/5/182 (East side (off)) Roker Pier and Lighthouse with railings, lamp standards and part of promenade

GV II

Pier and lighthouse with lamp standards and railings; short continuation of structure along promenade. 1885-1903. First recommendations by Sir John Coode 1876, amended by River Wear Commission engineer Henry Hay Wake in 1882. Rubble and cement foundation with red and white granite pier and lighthouse; cast-iron railings. Curved plan pier approx 900 metres long, extending from parapet approx 100 metres to N along promenade and from wall in quadrant curve to S. Rock-faced battered red pier walls with ashlar coping of large white granite blocks extend northwards from pier to round-coped parapet on promenade, with railings linking higher sections, and southwards to curved wall with steps to beach. Steps up to round platform of lighthouse with incurving walls of smooth white and rock-faced red bands; iron gallery to high lantern with secondary gallery and domed top. Plain stone surround to steps and metal door in S and to 4 recessed fixed lights, one in each band of colour, those set in red granite having alternate block white jambs, the top 3 lights with glazing bars and the lowest blocked. Railings along pier from Promenade to pier gate are tapered and round, with lozenges at centre and top pierced to hold renewed rails, and are bolted to the pier; some lamposts of same design incorporated. Seaward half of railings renewed except for those around lighthouse. Foundation stone 14 September 1885 and completion recorded on stone dated 23 September 1903, Engineer Henry Hay Wake M Inst CE for River Wear Commissioners, set in lightouse. This was the only one of the two piers begun by Wake to be completed, the new S Pier being abandoned shortly after. In 1903 this was the most powerful port light in the country. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 19).

Listing NGR: NZ4107458896