Former Gas Board Offices With Walls and Piers Attached
FORMER GAS BOARD OFFICES WITH WALLS AND PIERS ATTACHED, HIND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207094
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gas Board Offices With Walls and Piers Attached
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GAS BOARD OFFICES WITH WALLS AND PIERS ATTACHED, HIND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207094
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gas Board Offices With Walls and Piers Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GAS BOARD OFFICES WITH WALLS AND PIERS ATTACHED, HIND STREET
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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:
- FORMER GAS BOARD OFFICES WITH WALLS AND PIERS ATTACHED, HIND 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 39166 56967
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3956NW HIND STREET 920-1/19/113 (West side) Former Gas Board Offices with walls and piers attached
GV II
Gas board offices, now Community in Industry offices, with walls and piers attached. c1900. Bright red brick with yellow faience dressings; roof of graduated Lakeland slates with dark ridge tiles and brick and faience chimneys. Walls and piers brick with ashlar coping. Curved plan; Renaissance style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2:3:2:3:2 windows. Arcaded ground floor has hollow reveals to alternate block surrounds of doors in bays 4 and 7 and windows with upper glazing bars in other bays except for 3 elliptical arched display windows with slender mullions and transoms. First-floor casements with glazing bars have rusticated pilasters to grouped pairs which have moulded sills and flat lintels below third-floor string and gabled third floor; groups of 3 lights between gables each have keyed segmental heads to architraves with Gibbs surrounds. Gables contain 3 tall round-headed windows with glazing bars under keyed round shell heads; windows and blind outer bays flanked by pilasters which rise to entablature, the outer pair with ball-and-spike finials, the next pedimented, the inner pair continuing into pedimented gable. Segmental pediment over central gable.Returns have shaped gables, the left with long bracket to panelled ridge chimney over pent extension with 3 segmental headed first-floor lights. High wall continues to left from pent extension and ends in tall square pier with pyramidal coping; similar pier to left forms wide entrance to yard.
Listing NGR: NZ3916656967
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391493
- 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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