MARITIME BUILDINGS AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE

MARITIME BUILDINGS AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, SAINT THOMAS' STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217999
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:: MARITIME BUILDINGS AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE
Statutory Address:: MARITIME BUILDINGS AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, SAINT THOMAS' STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217999
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: MARITIME BUILDINGS AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE
Statutory Address 1:: MARITIME BUILDINGS AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, SAINT THOMAS' STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MARITIME BUILDINGS AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, SAINT THOMAS' 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 39917 57072

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ3957SE SAINT THOMAS' STREET 920-1/18/210 (North side) 10/11/78 Maritime Buildings and attached balustrade (Formerly Listed as: WEST SUNNISIDE (West side) Nos.41 AND 42 Refuge Buildings)

GV II

Marked on O.S. map as Refuge Assurance Buildings. Offices. c1900. By Henderson and Hall. Bright red brick with ashlar bands and dressings; Lakeland slate roof with ashlar copings, brick and ashlar chimneys and lead dome; wrought-iron balustrade to cellar steps on right return to West Sunniside. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 2:1:2 x 3 windows with corner turret. Central bay has panelled door and plain overlight at right in surround with round head; high keystone and voussoirs to open pediment on rusticated pilasters; high panel above has carved panel flanked by pilasters supporting cornice. 2-light stone mullion and transom window above has plain cornice; 2-light mullion window on second floor has segmental pediment on cornice. Prominent eaves gutter cornice to this bay. Flanking gabled sections have blocked cellar openings below 3-light mullion and transom windows; shaped aprons to similar first floor windows with cornices; projecting sills to second floor corniced 3-light mullion windows. Paired 2-light windows in gable peaks under with small raised segmental coping. Flush sill and lintel ashlar bands. Round corner turret on ogee-moulded first-floor bracket has similar treatment to narrow lights, with small round-headed light flanked by big cartouches in top floor of ashlar. Original upper glazing bars in some windows on ground and first floors, and glazing bars in some windows on other floors. Roof has 2 straight-headed dormers over central bay; tall ashlar-corniced chimneys on ridge and behind turret. Right return to West Sunniside has central basement entrance; similar windows and shallow bowed first-floor oriel. Wrought-iron balustrade to cellar steps has trailing sunflower and leaf ornament. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 15 AND 21).

Listing NGR: NZ3991757072

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Legacy System number:: 391585
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 15, 21

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.