NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK

NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 51 AND 52, FAWCETT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207079
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Statutory Address:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 51 AND 52, FAWCETT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207079
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Statutory Address 1:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 51 AND 52, FAWCETT STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 51 AND 52, FAWCETT STREET

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 39728 56999

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956NE FAWCETT STREET 920-1/20/71 (West side) 10/11/78 Nos.51 AND 52 National Westminster Bank (Formerly Listed as: FAWCETT STREET (West side) Nos.51 AND 52)

GV II

No. 51 marked `15' in error on O.S. Subscription library, now offices and bank, with attached window guards and balcony. 1878. By Austin, Johnson and Hicks, as part of subscription library. Ashlar with cast-iron window guards and balcony; light grey slate roof. Baroque palazzo style. 3 storeys, 8 windows. Rusticated ground floor, now altered, with double panelled door in third bay in round-headed opening under bracketed segmental hood, the central bracket with draped escutcheon. Giant Corinthian pilasters define bays above. Plain sashes on upper floors have keyed architraves, those on second floor with segmental heads and projecting aproned sills. Iron guards link pilaster bases and, in central bay of 5-bay bank at right, project as balcony. Top entablature has pulvinated frieze and modillioned cornice. Side consoles to 7 segmental-headed dormers with keyed architraves to plain sashes. Tall corniced ridge chimneys. Designed as part of a larger project, including Woods Bank at No.53 (qv), in which this was the front range of the subscription library. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 11; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 160).

Listing NGR: NZ3972856999

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 391448
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 11
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 160

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.