Silkworth Hall
SILKWORTH HALL, SILKWORTH HALL DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207129
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Silkworth Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SILKWORTH HALL, SILKWORTH HALL DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207129
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Silkworth Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SILKWORTH HALL, SILKWORTH HALL DRIVE
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:
- SILKWORTH HALL, SILKWORTH HALL DRIVE
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 37644 52847
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ35SE SILKSWORTH HALL DRIVE, Silksworth
920-1/6/272 (South side (off))
Silksworth Hall (formerly listed as:
17/10/94 SILKWORTH HALL DRIVE
Silkworth Hall Hotel)
GV II
House, later hotel; empty at time of survey. c1900. Bright red
brick with sandstone ashlar dressings; graduated slate roof
with terracotta ridge coping and finials and brick chimneys.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 wide bays. Jacobean style. Entrance
front has 3 wide gables, the central bay recessed with ashlar
loggia of keyed arches on imposts and pilasters set between
Ionic pilasters supporting entablature, the side arches with
balustrades below and above, the central open with pedimented
parapet above. SILKSWORTH HALL in well cut letters in centre
of frieze. Flanking semicircular projections have high
stone-mullioned 4-light windows, eaves string, parapet and
ribbed hemispherical roofs. Above loggia, 3 stone mullioned
and transomed windows with alternate-block jambs, the central
with low segmental pediment, and above this a 2-light window
in gable peak. In side bays a stepped chimney-stack rises
above each dome and has a single window in upper part, and is
flanked by similar small windows. All gables have bargeboards,
the central with dragon finial, the side with high octagonal
chimneys rising from corniced plinth, with corniced top bands.
Right return has 2 gabled bays flanking central triple
Jacobean ashlar blind arcade below 2-storey oriel bow window;
rear elevation has full-height projecting canted bays flanking
ground-floor loggia and first-floor balcony.
Listing NGR: NZ3764452847
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391590
- 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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