Carlton House
CARLTON HOUSE, 2, MOWBRAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207107
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Carlton House
- Statutory Address:
- CARLTON HOUSE, 2, MOWBRAY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207107
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Carlton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARLTON HOUSE, 2, MOWBRAY ROAD
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:
- CARLTON HOUSE, 2, MOWBRAY ROAD
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 39885 56060
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3956SE MOWBRAY ROAD
920-1/22/152 (South side)
No.2
Carlton House
GV II
Formerly known as: Nicholson House MOWBRAY ROAD.
Villa. At the time of listing in use as polytechnic students'
union accommodation. 1850. By J & B Green. For Alderman William Nicholson,
supplier of copper, brass and iron fittings for ships. Ashlar with brick
rear additions. Welsh slate roof with ashlar chimneys and
gable copings. Tudor style. L-plan with rear outbuildings
forming one side of rear yard.
EXTERIOR: garden front 2 storeys, 2:1:1 windows and one narrow
set back bay at right. First floor string. Buttressed
projection in fourth bay contains Tudor arched surround to
renewed glazed 4-panel door at right with mullioned overlight
and gablet. Left bays have paired ground-floor windows and 2
windows above under gablets with flower carved hoodmoulds.
Third bay projects under a gable and has a full-height canted
bay window with coped parapet; gable peak has single light and
hoodmould below coping on moulded kneelers. Narrow set back
bay at right. Steeply pitched roof has 2 parallel ridges and
one cross ridge, with tall corniced panelled stone chimneys.
All gables have roll-moulded copings and obelisk finials. Main
entrance in left return with two gables, that at left over
projecting entrance bay with moulded open arch; recessed
half-glazed 4 panel door in Tudor arch with leafy carved
spandrels and narrow side lights with sloping sills. Oriel
above has rose, thistle and shamrock carved on bracket. Second
gable has central stepped chimney projection with carved
Gothic lettering for WM and 1850 with heraldic device.
(Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People:
Sunderland: 1988-: 61; Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland
1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 14; Potts G: Langham Tower
(leaflet): Sunderland).
Listing NGR: NZ3988556060
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391530
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Potts, G, Langham Tower, ()
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 61
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983)
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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