The Bridge Hotel

THE BRIDGE HOTEL, 145, HIGH STREET WEST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208524
Date first listed:
20-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
The Bridge Hotel
Statutory Address:
THE BRIDGE HOTEL, 145, HIGH STREET WEST
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208524
Date first listed:
20-Jan-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
The Bridge Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
THE BRIDGE HOTEL, 145, HIGH STREET WEST
Statutory Address 2:
THE BRIDGE HOTEL, 24 AND 25, SUNDERLAND STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE BRIDGE HOTEL, 145, HIGH STREET WEST
Statutory Address:
THE BRIDGE HOTEL, 24 AND 25, SUNDERLAND STREET

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 40054 57241

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ4057 HIGH STREET WEST 920-1/12/106 (North side) 20/01/75 No.145 The Bridge Hotel (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET WEST (North side) No.145)

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Includes: Nos.24 AND 25 The Bridge Hotel (part) SUNDERLAND STREET. Public house. c1820 front range with ground floor refronted late C19. Faience ground floor; brick with painted ashlar and stucco dressings; felted slate roof with brick and rendered chimneys. 4 storeys, 2x5 windows with round corner bay; rear left return 2 storeys, 4 windows. Main 4-storey block has canted corner entrance with coloured patterned tiles in tall pilasters flanking renewed door under blind semicircular overlight; key to blind roundel in stone tympanum between lion-mask brackets of segmental pediment. Faience ground floor, rusticated above high plinth, has panels of patterned tiles in plinth and between windows. Sill string to fixed lights with glazing bars and voussoirs. Upper floors have cornice on second floor; sashes with glazing bars and projecting stone sills, except on second floor, and painted projecting stone lintels. Top window blind in rounded corner which has large Roman capitals BRIDGE HOTEL attached to brickwork. Top cornice. Low pitched hipped roof has raised section over rear entrance bay, and end chimneys. 5-window left return in similar style except third floor band instead of second floor cornice, and left bay blind above door in elliptical-headed plain reveals under scroll-bracketed hood. 2-storey left extension of left return continues with one faience bay at right on ground floor, and at left a pilastered shop front with bracketed fascia. First floor has 4 sashes in plain reveals with lintel band and projecting stone sills; high coped parapet.

Listing NGR: NZ4005457241

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
391485
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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