Numbers 28-39 (Consecutive) With Steps and Railings Attached

NUMBERS 28-39 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, WEST SUNNISIDE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218396
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:
Numbers 28-39 (Consecutive) With Steps and Railings Attached
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 28-39 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, WEST SUNNISIDE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218396
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1978
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
Numbers 28-39 (Consecutive) With Steps and Railings Attached
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 28-39 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, WEST SUNNISIDE

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 28-39 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, WEST SUNNISIDE

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 39950 57006

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956NE WEST SUNNISIDE 920-1/20/235 (West side) 10/11/78 Nos.28-39 (Consecutive) with steps and railings attached (Formerly Listed as: WEST SUNNISIDE (West side) Nos.28-39 (Consecutive))

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Terrace of 12 houses with steps and railings attached. Second quarter C19. Garden wall bond brick (5 and 1) with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Stone steps, rendered dwarf walls and cast-iron railings. EXTERIOR: each house 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Roll-moulded coping to basements. 5 stone steps to doors, numbered left-right. Nos 28 and 29 at left are wider houses, and have central doors; 30, 31, 32 have doors at right; 33 and 34 at left; remainder at right. Sunderland type doorcases of Tuscan-pilaster-and-entablature cases, and doors of two-leaf 8-panel tall double doors which fold back to form panelled reveals to inner 6-panelled doors and overlights, some with glazing bars. No.29 has door blocked. Renewed early C20 pedimented doorcase to No.34 and door to No.33. Sashes, with glazing bars to No.28 and renewed glazing bars to Nos 29 and 31, have wedge stone lintels; projecting stone sills except for first floor sill band. C20 plate glass shop window inserted across 2 bays of No.33. Some basement sashes have glazing bars. Area in front of No.35 filled in. No.28 at left has one-bay left return to Athenaeum Street. Dwarf walls and bull-nosed stone steps have leafy headed standards, crown finials to principals; some steps and railings renewed.

Listing NGR: NZ3995057006

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Legacy System number:
391644
Legacy System:
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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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