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Latitude: 54.9958 / 54°59'44"N
Longitude: -1.4497 / 1°26'59"W
OS Eastings: 435302
OS Northings: 566941
OS Grid: NZ353669
Mapcode National: GBR LB9N.YY
Mapcode Global: WHD4R.PPVH
Plus Code: 9C6WXHW2+84
Entry Name: Accumulator Tower in Albert Edward Dock
Listing Date: 19 February 1986
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1354990
English Heritage Legacy ID: 303337
ID on this website: 101354990
Location: Mill Dam, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, NE29
County: North Tyneside
Electoral Ward/Division: Riverside
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Tynemouth
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Tynemouth, Percy St John
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Tower
TYNEMOUTH HOWDON ROAD (south side, off)
NZ 36 NE
8/92 Accumulator tower in Albert
Edward Dock
G.V. II*
Hydraulic accumulator tower. 1882 for Tyne Improvement Commissioners. Engineers Ure
and Messent. Rock-faced sandstone with quoins, ashlar plinth coping and dressings;
Welsh slate roof. 2 high storeys, one bay. Partly-glazed door under rock-faced
elliptical arch; similar arches and projecting stone sills to windows, that above
door with vertical glazing bars. Windows on east face blocked up. Swept pyramidal
roof with railed lookout on top and bargeboarded gable above star-patterned panels,
said to have contained clock faces. Interior: high quality sandstone ashlar; iron
stair to machinery; hydraulic machinery. Historical note: the only surviving example
on the Tyne of hydraulic machinery, first developed at Newcastle by William Armstrong
in the 1840s. Unused at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ3530266941
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