1-9 The Esplanade (Terrace) With Steps and Handrails
1-9 THE ESPLANADE (TERRACE) WITH STEPS AND HANDRAILS, STOCKTON ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207131
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 1-9 The Esplanade (Terrace) With Steps and Handrails
- Statutory Address:
- 1-9 THE ESPLANADE (TERRACE) WITH STEPS AND HANDRAILS, STOCKTON ROAD
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2005-08-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/13886/31
- Rights:
- © Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207131
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 1-9 The Esplanade (Terrace) With Steps and Handrails
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-9 THE ESPLANADE (TERRACE) WITH STEPS AND HANDRAILS, STOCKTON 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:
- 1-9 THE ESPLANADE (TERRACE) WITH STEPS AND HANDRAILS, STOCKTON 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:
- NZ3970656231
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3956SE STOCKTON ROAD
920-1/22/211 (East side)
10/11/78 (Consecutive)
Nos.1-9 (consecutive) The Esplanade
(terrace) with steps and handrails
(Formerly Listed as:
STOCKTON ROAD
(East side)
The Esplanade (Nos. 1-9 consec.))
GV II
Terrace of 9 houses, now mostly offices, with steps and
handrails. 1853-65. By Martin Greener. Garden wall bond brick
(5 and one) with red mortar and painted ashlar dressings;
Welsh slate roof with ashlar-coped brick chimneys.
2 storeys and basements; houses of 5:5:3:3:5:3:5:4:5, Nos 1
and 9 at ends projecting with giant angle pilasters, No.9 at
left with set-back entrance bay. Rusticated basements;
bull-nosed steps with moulded tread ends and wrought-iron
handrails on cast-iron balusters with ornate bases and newels.
4-panel doors and margined overlights between pilasters with
large scrolled brackets supporting heavily-corniced
entablature with patera which breaks forward over pilasters.
Margined sashes have lugged architraves and bracketed stone
sills, those on ground floor with apron to basement, those on
first floor with frieze and cornice. Deep top entablature has
cornice on paired brackets, longer brackets on giant
pilasters. Roof has ashlar-coped ridge brick chimneys with
tall octagonal castellated yellow pots; some inserted roof
lights. No.1 right return has full-height canted bay, and 2
round-headed attic lights. Area railings mentioned in previous
description have been removed at time of survey.
(Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle:
1983-: 14).
Listing NGR: NZ3970656231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391595
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 14
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 09-Jun-2026 at 17:02:30.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.