No. 20, VILLIERS STREET

20, VILLIERS STREET, SR1 1EJ

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218336
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:: No. 20, VILLIERS STREET
Statutory Address:: 20, VILLIERS STREET, SR1 1EJ

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Date:: 2002-05-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218336
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:: No. 20, VILLIERS STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 20, VILLIERS STREET, SR1 1EJ

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 20, VILLIERS STREET, SR1 1EJ

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 40122 56978

Details

NZ 4056, 920-1/14/231

SUNDERLAND, VILLIERS STREET (West side), No. 20

10/11/78

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II

Formerly known as: School for Chapel of St George VILLIERS STREET.

School, now offices. 1849. For adjacent Baptist chapel at No. 19 (qv). Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. Two storeys, five windows. Internal steps up to panelled door and high overlight with glazing bars in surround of block-rusticated Tuscan attached columns and entablature. Windows, with renewed glazing bars and pivoting central lights, have lugged architraves, those on ground floor with panelled labels from moulded sills down to plinth, those on first floor on sill string. Rusticated quoins interrupted by first-floor band; eaves entablature with bracketed gutter cornice. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 143).

Listing NGR: NZ4012256978

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 391634
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 143

Legal

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