Philadelphia, Underground Battery Locomotive Shops

HER Number:
11168

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Philadelphia, Underground Battery Locomotive Shops

Place:
Philadelphia

Map Sheet:
NZ35SW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Industrial Building

Site Type: Specific:
Workshop

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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

Easting:
3365

Northing:
5259

Grid Reference:
NZ33655259

Lats/Lons:

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