Burdon House
BURDON HOUSE, 1-4, BURDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207060
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Burdon House
- Statutory Address:
- BURDON HOUSE, 1-4, BURDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207060
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Burdon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURDON HOUSE, 1-4, BURDON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BURDON HOUSE, 1-4, BURDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 39765 56778
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3956NE BURDON ROAD 920-1/20/23 (West side) Nos.1-4 (Consecutive) Burdon House
GV II
Shops and offices. 1916. For North Eastern Railway. Ashlar; roof not visible; ashlar chimneys. 3 storeys, 10x3 windows. Rusticated ground floor has pilasters framing door in 9th bay under high overlight, in round-headed surround with hollow reveals, and supporting shop entablature with fascia name boards. Giant pilasters to upper floors rest on moulded brackets and frame pairs of sashes, the lower in architraves, the upper with keyed segmental-headed architraves on moulded sills with plain rectangular aprons. Top entablature with dentilled cornice supports balustraded roof parapet. Low-pitched roof has corniced end ashlar chimneys. Right return similar. Left return has central 3-light mullioned and transomed windows flanked by 2-storey shallow bow tripartite oriels. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 19; Sinclair NT: Railways of Sunderland: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1986-: 22).
Listing NGR: NZ3976556778
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391395
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sinclair, N T, Railways of Sunderland, (1986), 22
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 19
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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