Cleadon Water Pumping Station, engineman's 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 (round-arched style - a term coined by German architect H. Hubsch in 1828. A style similar to Romanesque and Renaissance traditions), the narrow windows mostly alternating single and coupled. Fine square detached chimney in the form of a grand "campanile" (bell tower commonly associated with Italian churches from 8th century onwards). Pyramidal roof and a cantilevered gallery round the top floor {1}. The chimney provided a draught for the boilers and dispersed waste gases from the boiler house. Contains a square flue with an internal continuous flight of stairs wrapping around the central chamber. 30m above ground level there is an external cantilevered gallery. The square metal railings are not ornamental. The roof and gallery overhangs have curved timber brackets. The tower is built of soft clay red brick with light-coloured lime-rich mortar, rusticated quoins and one high level stone string course. Each face has 12 inset vertical windows in groups of three, with brickwork recessed around each group. The chimney has been used for radio transmission by the emergency services since 1962. The aerials are not overwhelmingly visible from the ground.