Forecourt Wall, Piers and Railings to North of Trafalgar Square Almshouses
FORECOURT WALL, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO NORTH OF TRAFALGAR SQUARE ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208160
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Forecourt Wall, Piers and Railings to North of Trafalgar Square Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- FORECOURT WALL, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO NORTH OF TRAFALGAR SQUARE ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH WALK
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01230/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208160
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Forecourt Wall, Piers and Railings to North of Trafalgar Square Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORECOURT WALL, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO NORTH OF TRAFALGAR SQUARE ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH WALK
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:
- FORECOURT WALL, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO NORTH OF TRAFALGAR SQUARE ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH WALK
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 40664 57245
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ4057 CHURCH WALK 920-1/12/51 (South side) 10/11/78 Forecourt wall, piers and railings to north of Trafalgar Square Almshouses (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH WALK (South side) Forecourt wall, piers and railings to north of Trafalgar Square)
GV II
Forecourt and yard walls, piers and railings to Trafalgar Square Almshouses (qv). c1840 for the Trustees of the Muster Roll. Pebbledashed front wall; rubble yard wall at left, with brick coping, and brick yard wall at right with ashlar door lintel and coping; rendered gate piers, ashlar piers at outer ends of railings and brick pier to right brick wall. Low front walls, now pebbledashed, with elliptical-section stone coping, end in 4 tall square stone piers which have plinth, cornice and blocking course. To left, a rubble wall with C20 gabled brick coping; to right, a brick wall with flat stone coping ends in tall square pier linking it to wall of yard of caretaker's cottage of Holy Trinity (qv). In this right wall a central projection has a flat stone lintel over a blocked door. Gates and railings renewed.
Listing NGR: NZ4066457245
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391428
- 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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