Ropery Road, Webster's Ropery
Ropery Road, Webster's Ropery
HER Number
2799
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Ropery Road, Webster's Ropery
Place
Deptford
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Rope Manufacturing Site
Site Type: Specific
Ropery
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Webster's Ropery in Deptford survives as the oldest factory building in Sunderland, a four-storey dressed stone structure of impressive dimensions built in approximately 1797 by Grimshaw Webster and Company. It housed the first steam engine known to have been installed in a ropeworks. It is thought to be the world's first Patent Ropeworks (i.e. not having a rope walk). Although the interior has been substantially altered, the cast iron window frames may well be original. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
438480
Northing
557840
Grid Reference
NZ438480557840
Sources
<< HER 2799 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 8
Tyne and Wear Industrial Monuments Trust, 1978, Sites of Interest in River Plan Area, No.14
I.M. Ayris, & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p.55
Association for Industrial Archaeology, 1977, Webster's Ropery, Sunderland Bulletin, No. 3.4, March 1977
Tyne and Wear Industrial Monuments Trust, 1976, Webster's Ropery, Deptford, Sunderland, In Trust, Issue 2, June 1976
Tyne and Wear Industrial Monuments Trust, 1978, Sites of Interest in River Plan Area, No.14
I.M. Ayris, & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p.55
Association for Industrial Archaeology, 1977, Webster's Ropery, Sunderland Bulletin, No. 3.4, March 1977
Tyne and Wear Industrial Monuments Trust, 1976, Webster's Ropery, Deptford, Sunderland, In Trust, Issue 2, June 1976