The Londonderry Institute and Forecourt Wall
THE LONDONDERRY INSTITUTE AND FORECOURT WALL, 18, TEMPEST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232455
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Londonderry Institute and Forecourt Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE LONDONDERRY INSTITUTE AND FORECOURT WALL, 18, TEMPEST ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-08-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/01252/07
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232455
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Londonderry Institute and Forecourt Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LONDONDERRY INSTITUTE AND FORECOURT WALL, 18, TEMPEST ROAD
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:
- THE LONDONDERRY INSTITUTE AND FORECOURT WALL, 18, TEMPEST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Seaham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 42828 49618
Details
In the entry for NZ 44 NW SEAHAM TEMPEST ROAD (south side)
4/42 No 18, The Londonderry Institute and forecourt 21.6.50 wall (formerly listed under Tempest Place)
II
The grade shall be amended to read: Grade II* (star)
------------------------------------------------------- NZ 44 NW SEAHAM TEMPEST ROAD (south side)
4/42 No 18, The Londonderry Institute and forecourt wall 21.6.50 II (Formerly listed under Tempest Place)
Former Literary and Scientific Institute. 1853-5 by Thomas Oliver. Grey sandstone ashlar with low-pitched Welsh slate roofs. T-plan with projecting portico. Greek Revival style. Single storey, 5-bay frontage with single-bay returns and 3 x 2-bay wing to rear. Street facade has 3-bay centre, with tetrastyle Doric portico on 3- step stylobate, and flanking single-bay wings. Portico has pediment with corniced acroterion. Openings have battered eared architraves and raised sills. Central pair of massive 4-panel doors, with riveted iron framing to panels,are flanked by single windows. Single bays to left and right with similar windows are articulated by pilasters. Frieze has triglyphs and blank metopes. Single-bay returns framed by corner pilasters have similar windows and projecting pedimented gables. 3 bay- rear wing has pilaster bay divisions, 3 windows and a plain frieze. 2 corniced ashlar stacks at junctions of rear wing and returns. Interior: much altered and in a state of disrepair at time of survey.
Forecourt has 6 stone piers and low chamfered wall; only one pier to left retains its pyramidal cap.
Listing NGR: NZ4282849618
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407844
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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