Numbers 45, 46 and 47 With Attached Steps and Railings
NUMBERS 45, 46 AND 47 WITH ATTACHED STEPS AND RAILINGS, JOHN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207101
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 45, 46 and 47 With Attached Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 45, 46 AND 47 WITH ATTACHED STEPS AND RAILINGS, JOHN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207101
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 45, 46 and 47 With Attached Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 45, 46 AND 47 WITH ATTACHED STEPS AND RAILINGS, JOHN STREET
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:
- NUMBERS 45, 46 AND 47 WITH ATTACHED STEPS AND RAILINGS, JOHN 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 39828 56893
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3956NE JOHN STREET 920-1/20/131 (West side) 10/11/78 Nos.45, 46 AND 47 with attached steps and railings (Formerly Listed as: JOHN STREET (West side) Nos.45-47 (Consecutive))
GV II
3 houses, now offices, with steps, dwarf walls and railings attached. Part of a terrace. c1840 in two builds, No.47 at right possibly later. English garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar basements and dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Ashlar dwarf walls; cast and wrought-iron balustrades and railings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows each house. Steps up to double doors, at right of each house, with 10 fielded panels to Nos 45 and 46, 6 panels to No.47, which fold back to form panelled reveals to inner door. Painted stone door surrounds of pilasters and entablature with shallow dentils to frieze. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with horizontal glazing bars, those on ground floor with panelled aprons to 2 houses at left; sill strings on both floors of No.27. Basements have channelled rustication. No.27 has wide giant brick pilaster at left; adjacent right house, which forms corner with Athenaeum Street, demolished and replaced with C20 building. Step balustrades of cast-iron with wrought handrails; chamfered dwarf area walls have cast-iron railings with ornamental heads, some replaced, and interrupted by entrances to renewed basement doors.
Listing NGR: NZ3982856893
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391509
- 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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