Warehouse on Wylam Wharf, Premises of Rose Line Limited at NZ 4025 5736

WAREHOUSE ON WYLAM WHARF, PREMISES OF ROSE LINE LIMITED AT NZ 4025 5736, LOW STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208788
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:
Warehouse on Wylam Wharf, Premises of Rose Line Limited at NZ 4025 5736
Statutory Address:
WAREHOUSE ON WYLAM WHARF, PREMISES OF ROSE LINE LIMITED AT NZ 4025 5736, LOW STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208788
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1978
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
Warehouse on Wylam Wharf, Premises of Rose Line Limited at NZ 4025 5736
Statutory Address 1:
WAREHOUSE ON WYLAM WHARF, PREMISES OF ROSE LINE LIMITED AT NZ 4025 5736, LOW 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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WAREHOUSE ON WYLAM WHARF, PREMISES OF ROSE LINE LIMITED AT NZ 4025 5736, LOW 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 40250 57360

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ4057 LOW STREET 920-1/12/138 (North side) 10/11/78 Warehouse on Wylam Wharf, premises of Rose Line Limited at NZ 4025 5736 (Formerly Listed as: LOW STREET (North side) Rose Line Limited, Wylam Wharf (Plot 13 High Street East))

GV II

Bonded warehouse. C18 and c1830. N build rubble stone, S build brick, with Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys. 4:5 bays. E elevation: 5-bay stone part has central ground floor metal loading bay door recessed in rendered surround. Loading doors above blocked on first floor, boarded on upper floors under gabled boarded hoist opening with projecting pulley. Small segment headed openings have projecting sills and rubble heads, some blocked with bricks, some boarded and some with glazing bars. 4-bay brick build at left has narrow loading doors in second bay, wider on ground floor under renewed lintel, segmental brick arches over others. Similar arches over small wood mullion 2-light openings, some boarded, with projecting stone sills. Roof hipped at left and with stone coped gable on right return, over wide boarded loading doors on each floor and small hoist opening in larger brick-blocked opening in gable peak. One of only 2 warehouses surviving in what was formerly a densely occupied commercial quayside area. Empty and derelict at time of survey.

Listing NGR: NZ4025057360

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
391516
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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