Cleadon Water Pumping Station, smithy or coal house

1860-62, Thomas Hawksley engineer.
Built by the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company and began working in 1862. Brick with stone dressings and rusticated quoins. Hipped slate roofs. The
buildings are in an Italianate Rundbogenstil, the narrow windows mostly alternating
single and coupled. One storey. All buildings have deep overhanging eaves with bow brackets {1}. The pumping station originally operated by steam from coal fired boilers. 470 pounds of coal were used per hour {2}. The main entrance is via two large arches in the west wall. These probably gave access to coal wagons. The eastern part of the building was a blacksmith's workshop. The northern and southern façades of this building have two symmetrically opposed entrances, the western one was blocked by 1870. The windows in these facades are semi-circular like the fanlights above the doorways {3}.