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