National Coal Board Central Garage

NZ35SW HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING VOLTAGE TERRACE 4/70 Philadelphia.

N.C.B. Central Garage.

G.V. II

Power station, now workshops. Circa 1906 for Durham Collieries Power Company. Yellow brick with red brick dressings; roofing felt. Basement and one high storey; 9 bays x 3. Gable to street : basement in mound; 3 brick panels, containing tall round-headed metal windows with pivoting lights flanking blocked-in vehicle entrance under blocked-in window; 4-keystoned ox-eye window over; gable peak contains group of 7 panels. Left return has vehicle entrance doors to basement; no windows; 18 corbels at original eaves level and dentilled eaves. Interior : cast iron balcony along south side with cast iron staircases to ground and basement. Historical note : incorporated into NESCO system by 1911. Source, S. M. Linsley "Industrial Archaeology of Electricity around Tyne and Wear' in proceedings of the Fourth Institution of Electrical Engineers' Meeting on the History of Electrical Engineering, Durham 1976, pp,ll-18.

Listing NGR: NZ3346752022