1-24, PARK PLACE WEST

1-24, PARK PLACE WEST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209501
Date first listed:
17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
1-24, PARK PLACE WEST
Statutory Address:
1-24, PARK PLACE WEST
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209501
Date first listed:
17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
1-24, PARK PLACE WEST
Statutory Address 1:
1-24, PARK PLACE WEST

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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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:
1-24, PARK PLACE WEST

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 39925 56255

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956SE PARK PLACE WEST 920-1/22/167 (West side) Nos.1-24 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of 24 houses. 1850-1854. Garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 2 storeys, some with basements. 3 windows each house, but some houses wider. Groups step down the hill. Nos 1-5 at right are highest and have panelled doors of Sunderland type, folding back to form reveals of inner doors and overlights in doorcases of large fluted Ionic pilasters with entablatures, but surround removed from No.5. Similar doors with Tuscan pilaster and entablature surrounds to other houses, Nos 12, 13 and 21 central with flanking canted bay windows, single canted bay ground-floor windows to other houses, with pilasters or architraves, rising from basement canted bays in some. First floor has bracketed cornices and projecting stone sills to sash in plain reveals. Most windows have horizontal glazing bars, some 4-pane sashes. Renewed glazing includes mullioned and transomed casements to Nos 2 and 3, and pivoting lights. Roman lettering to incised street name plaque at right. Roof, hipped at right, has transverse ridge and right end chimneys. Some dormers canted bays with slate-hung sides and hipped roofs, some gabled, some round-headed. C20 or altered dormer to No.2. Right return to Park Road has 2 windows, the left blind, and one canted bay on ground floor; wide canted dormer in roof. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 61; Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 14).

Listing NGR: NZ3992556255

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Legacy System number:
391548
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 61
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 14

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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