Sunniside Chambers
SUNNISIDE CHAMBERS, 40, WEST SUNNISIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207148
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Sunniside Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- SUNNISIDE CHAMBERS, 40, WEST SUNNISIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207148
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Sunniside Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNNISIDE CHAMBERS, 40, WEST SUNNISIDE
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:
- SUNNISIDE CHAMBERS, 40, WEST SUNNISIDE
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 39931 57053
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3957SE WEST SUNNISIDE 920-1/18/236 (West side) 10/11/78 No.40 Sunniside Chambers (Formerly Listed as: WEST SUNNISIDE (West side) No.40)
GV II
Offices. 1900-1902. By Henderson & Hall. Bright red brick with sandstone ashlar bands and dressings; roof of Lakeland slates with red ridge tiles, brick and ashlar chimneys, and lead dome. Art Nouveau style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2x8 windows and corner turret; longer front to St Thomas' Street on right return. Entrance on West Sunniside has panelled door and blocked overlight in stone surround with modillioned cornice doorhood below incised panels and segment-headed top cornice. Ashlar plinth swept to street below window at right, originally 2-light but mullion removed, on sill band which is continuous with plane of door surround; bands flush with brickwork from window surround. Paired first-floor lights above this window have upper glazing bars to sashes set well back in plain surrounds, with bands at transom, head and voussoir levels and alternate ashlar and brick voussoirs and high keystone. Top floor ashlar above sill band of 2 lights in plain surround alternating with 3 recessed panels. Corner turret at right projects from first-floor level on corbelled wide ashlar bracket; single narrow lights on 3 floors, third floor tapered and the whole perhaps showing entasis; bands continue from front and around bracket to return. Steeply-pitched hipped roof, interrupted by turret, has wide modillioned eaves projecting to plane of turret; turret has ogee octagonal roof with wide modillioned eaves and top disc-and-spike finial. Tall chimneys on ridge of right return. Front to St Thomas' Street has higher eaves in first bay adjacent to turret, projecting right end bay, central wide entrance with altered fascia flanked by mullioned lights. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 15).
Listing NGR: NZ3993157053
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391645
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 15
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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