Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ4058 HARBOUR VIEW 920-1/9/96 (East side (off)) 10/11/78 Remaining walls of North Dock

GV II

The remaining walls of a 6-acre dock. 1834-38. By Isambard Kingdom Brunel. For the Wearmouth Dock Company by Royal Charter. Opened for traffic 1837; 1846 purchased by York and Newcastle Railway Co.; sold by NE Railway in 1922; by 1934 the property of the River Wear Commissioners. Granite ashlar. All the NW, much of the SW and NE, and part of the SE walls of what was originally a square-plan dock with entrance lock gates from tide basin at south. High wall with curved batter and bull-nosed edging; vertical timber buffer strips set in at intervals. Construction was by building one course of back and front walls at a time, filling space with mortar and setting core stones within that mortar so as to ensure a completely solid structure. Part of NE and SE walls survive behind late-C20 landfill. Part of SE wall demolished together with entrance. A significant structure by one of the greatest engineers of the C19. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 18; ).

Listing NGR: NZ4061358469

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