Register Buildings

REGISTER BUILDINGS, 114-118, HIGH STREET WEST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207091
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:
Register Buildings
Statutory Address:
REGISTER BUILDINGS, 114-118, HIGH STREET WEST
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207091
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1978
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
Register Buildings
Statutory Address 1:
REGISTER BUILDINGS, 114-118, HIGH STREET WEST

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
REGISTER BUILDINGS, 114-118, HIGH STREET WEST

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 39832 57178

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ3957SE HIGH STREET WEST 920-1/18/105 (North side) 10/11/78 Nos.114-118 (Consecutive) Register Buildings (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET WEST (North side) Nos.114-118 (Consecutive))

GV II

Offices for Registrar and Poor Law Guardians. 1856. By Thomas Moore. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Gothic style. 3:2:3 storeys, 4:3:4 windows. Altered ground floor has C20 shops. Central gabled section has 3 lancets under dripstring with central crocketed ogee; pierced quatrefoils flank finial. Pilasters defining gable have cusped panels and rise to octagonal pinnacles and spirelets with Tudor-flower finials. Gable has pierced panelled parapet with intermediate spirelets and finials. Flanking sections have label moulds and splayed reveals to sashes with glazing bars, some renewed; 4 right bays have original fine glazing bars to most windows; one wide C20 window inserted. Moulded gutter cornice. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 15, 20).

Listing NGR: NZ3983257178

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
391484
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 15,20

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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