Mowbray Almshouses Forecourt Walls and Piers
MOWBRAY ALMSHOUSES FORECOURT WALLS AND PIERS, 1-4, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207067
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Mowbray Almshouses Forecourt Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- MOWBRAY ALMSHOUSES FORECOURT WALLS AND PIERS, 1-4, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207067
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Mowbray Almshouses Forecourt Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOWBRAY ALMSHOUSES FORECOURT WALLS AND PIERS, 1-4, CHURCH LANE
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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:
- MOWBRAY ALMSHOUSES FORECOURT WALLS AND PIERS, 1-4, CHURCH LANE
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 39335 56953
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3956NW CHURCH LANE 920-1/19/40 (East side) 10/11/78 Nos.1-4 (Consecutive) Mowbray Almshouses forecourt walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH LANE (East side) Nos.1-4 (Consecutive) Mowbray Almshouses) (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH LANE (East side) Forecourt wall, piers and railings to Mowbray Almshouses)
GV II
Almshouses with forecourt walls and piers. Rebuilt 1863. By ER Robson. For Elizabeth Gray Mowbray. Forecourt walls altered c1980. Thin courses of squared sandstone rubble with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with red ridge tiles. Walls and piers similar stone. L-plan building with forecourt walls forming other 2 sides of square. Gothic style. Almshouses: 2 storeys, 4 houses each with 3 windows. Each house has boarded central door, that to No.2 in canted angle bay, in pointed arch with irregular block jambs, under 2-light stone-mullioned window with tracery. Bays flanking doors have 2-light windows, those on first floor with plate tracery in pointed-arched surrounds, in full height pointed-arched panels set in gabled projections breaking eaves. Floor string. Gables have stone copings and clove finials. Steeply pitched roof has tall ashlar ridge chimneys with shallow buttresses. Left return gable has irregularly-stepped chimney-stack with head-stopped dripmould over Latin inscription commemorating foundation by John Mowbray in 1727 and rebuilding for Elizabeth Gray Mowbray in 1863. Right return gable has external chimney-stack with the Mowbray lion in low relief under dripmould with flower stops and fleur-de-lys finial. Forecourt walls attached, partly rebuilt and with renewed plain railings, have ashlar plinth and coping; square gate piers have renewed coping; intermediate pier rising from wall has Gothic coping.
Listing NGR: NZ3933556953
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391417
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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