Throston Engine House and Wall Adjoining, Hartlepool
Description: Throston Engine House and Wall Adjoining
Grade: II
Date Listed: 21 April 1983
English Heritage Building ID: 432706
OS Grid Reference: NZ5191534398
OS Grid Coordinates: 451915, 534398
Latitude/Longitude: 54.7019, -1.1959
Location: Old Cemetery Road, Hartlepool TS24 0QN
Locality: Hartlepool
Local Authority: Hartlepool
County: Durham
Country: England
Postcode: TS24 0QN
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Listing Text
HARTLEPOOL OLD CEMETERY ROAD,
NZ 53 SW Headland
4/84 Throston Engine
House and wall
21.4.83 adjoining.
- II
Wrongly shown on O.S. map as Clifton Street. Housing for hauling engine,
1830's, limestone ashlar; gabled Welsh slate roof added later after
removal of header tank. Single storey, with basement fully exposed on
south-east and north-east sides, other two sides concealed by railway
embankment. Each face has Tuscan pilasters and clasping pilasters, rising
from floor string, and with entablature. Rebuilt gables to north-east and
south-west sides, which together with south-east side are each of 3 bays. 2
windows and central doorway to south-west side; 3 windows to south-east
side, all round-headed, with moulded architraves continued to floor string,
and lacking doors and glazing. 4 blocked round-headed openings, that to
left being later, on south-east face of basement. Lower part of north-west
side obscured by remains of comtemporary adjoining building, above which,
pilasters define single-bay returns on this side, at each end. Extending
from north angle: a low wall, with string course below parapet, of 2 bays
defined by single pilaster strip on north-east face, and having 2
round-headed openings without glazing. Contains remains of bed of hauling
engine used to draw coal wagons up railway incline to top of former coal
staithes. Dispute between railway companies over use of these coal-shipping
facilities was major factor leading to founding of new town of West
Hartlepool in 1840's.
Listing NGR: NZ5191534398
Source: English Heritage
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