49 AND 50, HIGH STREET EAST, 2 AND 3, UNION LANE
2 AND 3, UNION LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207088
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 49 AND 50, HIGH STREET EAST, 2 AND 3, UNION LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 3, UNION LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207088
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 49 AND 50, HIGH STREET EAST, 2 AND 3, UNION LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 AND 3, UNION LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 49 AND 50, HIGH STREET EAST
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:
- 2 AND 3, UNION LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 49 AND 50, HIGH STREET EAST
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 40433 57319
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ4057 HIGH STREET EAST 920-1/12/98 (South side) 10/11/78 Nos.49 AND 50
GV II
Includes: Nos.2 AND 3 UNION LANE. Houses, now shops. c1780 with late-C19 shop front added. Brick with ashlar dressings and quoins; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 2 windows. Tooled ashlar quoins to renewed ground-floor shop front with two doors. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to 4-pane sash windows. Right return to Union Lane has stone street-name plaque; 3 storeys, 4 windows. Doors at left and under cambered brick arch at left of third bay; flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes in flush box frames, at left with glazing bars and the second 4-paned; renewed sashes at right and blocked ground-floor opening with cambered brick arch. Rear part derelict at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ4043357319
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391477
- 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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