Numbers 20-23 With Steps and Railings Attached
NUMBERS 20-23 WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, JOHN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208682
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 20-23 With Steps and Railings Attached
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 20-23 WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, JOHN STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-10-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/01230/17
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208682
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 20-23 With Steps and Railings Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 20-23 WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, JOHN STREET
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:
- NUMBERS 20-23 WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, JOHN 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 39859 56894
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3956NE JOHN STREET 920-1/20/128 (East side) 10/11/78 Nos.20-23 (Consecutive) with steps and railings attached (Formerly Listed as: JOHN STREET (East side) Nos.20-23 (Consecutive))
GV II
4 houses, part of a terrace, with steps, dwarf walls and railings attached. c1840. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with much tuck pointing; painted ashlar basements and dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. EXTERIOR: each 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Steps up (renewed to No.23) to doors at right of each: No.20 a 6-panelled door and overlight with petal-shaped glazing bars in round-headed panelled reveals with open dentilled pediment on attached Tuscan columns; No.21 with Tuscan pilasters and plain entablature to 10-panel double door folding back to form panelled reveals; No.22 with c1900 8-panelled door and pedimented surround; No.23 with double 3-panel doors in late C19 doorcase of architrave with hood on big console brackets. 4-pane sashes, probably original, and plain sashes to No.23 have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills, those on ground floor with panelled ashlar aprons; No.23 has ground-floor shop window inserted. Eaves gutter cornices. Roof has gabled dormer to No.20, Sunderland-type later C19 canted bay dormer with hipped roof to No.22, and two flat-topped C20 dormers to No.23. Step balustrades and area railings mostly cast-iron with elaborate heads. Transverse-ridge chimneys.
Listing NGR: NZ3985956894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391506
- 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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