Description

NZ 16 NE NEWBURN GRANGE ROAD (west end, off) Newburn

7/29 Newburn pumping station

II

Pumping station. 1854-5; engineer Robert Nicholson, built by R.Cail for Whittle Dene Water Co. Rock-faced sandstone with vermiculate dressings and quoins; Welsh slate roof. 2 blocks; 2 storeys, 2 x 1 bays and one high storey, 2 x 4 bays attached to west. 2-storey block: round-headed ground floor openings with alternate-block jambs and keystones; double door in east end with diagonal boarding under boarded infill; sill under flat stone lintels. Eaves band and gutter cornice. Hipped roof. Lower building in similar style. Source: R.W. Rennison, Water to Tyneside, Newcastle 1979 pp 70, 71, 79. Historical note: part of works designed to improve the water supply, by taking water from gravel beds, after the 1853 cholera epidemic.

Listing NGR: NZ1596065589

External Links

• Wikidata Q26481323

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