Latitude: 54.9139 / 54°54'49"N
Longitude: -1.401 / 1°24'3"W
OS Eastings: 438494
OS Northings: 557848
OS Grid: NZ384578
Mapcode National: GBR V8T.VJ
Mapcode Global: WHD55.GR2B
Plus Code: 9C6WWH7X+GH
Entry Name: Websters Ropery
Listing Date: 10 November 1978
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1207121
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391562
ID on this website: 101207121
Location: Deptford, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR4
County: Sunderland
Electoral Ward/Division: Millfield
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Sunderland
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Millfield St Mark
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SUNDERLAND
NZ3857 ROPERY ROAD 920-1/10/183 (North side (off)) 10/11/78 Websters' Ropery
GV II
Ropery building, now offices. c1793. For Messrs. Webster and Grimshaw; restored 1985-7 by Sunderland Borough Council. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings; rubble returns and rear; Welsh slate roof with ashlar copings. 4 storeys, 11 windows. 5 central bays project slightly; keyed round arches with plain stone heads on impost blocks in bays 4 and 8 have recessed renewed doors. Painted metal windows, those on ground floor longer and on top floor shorter than the intermediate windows, were originally iron, and have glazing bars and pivoted central sections. Roof on paired plain brackets has end gable copings on plain kneelers. Gabled rear wing has wedge stone lintels to windows. This was built for the manufacture of ropes using the first machine rope-making process in the world, patented in 1793 by Richard Fothergill; in 1795 it received the first steam engine to be installed in a ropeworks. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 29; In Trust: 2 June 1976: Newcastle upon Tyne).
Listing NGR: NZ3849457848
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