Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ4157 HUDSON DOCK NORTH
920-1/13/117 (North side)
10/11/78 Dock Office at N end of Hudson Dock
with hydraulic accumulator, walls &
piers
(Formerly Listed as:
HUDSON DOCK NORTH
The Dock Office)

GV II

Dock office and walls and piers attached. 1850. By John
Murray. For Sunderland Dock Company. Hydraulic accumulator
inserted c1875 for swing bridge, designed by Sir W Armstrong &
Co, for River Wear Commission. Coursed squared limestone with
ashlar sandstone dressings and tower; Welsh slate roof with
ashlar chimney. Modified Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3x3 bays with E staircase wing and SE
tower. N elevation has alternate block surrounds and
projecting flat stone lintels to double doors with overlight
at centre and in left stair wing. Staircase doors panelled.
Similar jambs and projecting flat sills and lintels to
ground-floor windows. First floor and first floor sill bands.
First-floor windows have lugged architraves with raised
voussoirs, the central rising as key across entablature.
Sashes with glazing bars, in left bay and over door replaced
with casements. Rusticated quoins; top entablature with gutter
cornice and blocking course. Low-pitched hipped roof has
corniced ridge chimney. Right return has central upper window
blocked, and fire door inserted with external fire escape;
sashes with glazing bars in left bay which now contains
hydraulic accumulator for swing bridge. Rear left return has
tower with slit lights and clock faces in top stage below
bracketed cornice and blocking course.
INTERIOR shows ground floor house and first floor office, now
all offices; panelled doors with architraves; some original
chimney pieces and simple stucco decoration. Hydraulic
accumulator inserted behind first right return bay has walls
apparently of wood which may be concrete with shuttering
marking, and retains machinery. Tower stair to clock chamber,
now used for access to dock traffic lights, has renewed
balustrade with a few original stick balusters but handrail
renewed in straight sections.
High stone yard wall with ashlar coping on left return
encloses triangular area between stair and tower and has
entrance with two square piers with flat stone coping, one
damaged. Adjacent swing bridge (qv) has original machinery but
is now not operated by this hydraulic accumulator.
(Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle
upon Tyne: 1983-: 18; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland
River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 17).

Listing NGR: NZ4104157706

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569080

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)