Underground Battery Locomotive Shops
Underground Battery Locomotive Shops
HER Number
11168
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Underground Battery Locomotive Shops
Place
Philadelphia
Map Sheet
NZ35SW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Industrial Building
Site Type: Specific
Workshop
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Workshop. Circa 1882 for Lambton Colliery Company. Brick; roof of corrugated
asbestos. One high storey, 7 bays. South elevation; 7 full-height buttresses
(none at right corner); central round-headed entrance bricked up; tall round-
headed windows (heads bricked up and modern casements inserted), under smaller
round-headed windows with metal glazing bars; all arches triple rows of gauged
brick. Hipped roof. Included partly for group value. LISTED GRADE 2
asbestos. One high storey, 7 bays. South elevation; 7 full-height buttresses
(none at right corner); central round-headed entrance bricked up; tall round-
headed windows (heads bricked up and modern casements inserted), under smaller
round-headed windows with metal glazing bars; all arches triple rows of gauged
brick. Hipped roof. Included partly for group value. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
433650
Northing
552590
Grid Reference
NZ433650552590
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 456/4/58; TWM Archaeology, 2011, Lambton Engine Works, Philadelphia - Historic Buildings Recording