Old Customs House and Adjoining Wings
OLD CUSTOMS HOUSE AND ADJOINING WINGS, VICTORIA TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263124
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old Customs House and Adjoining Wings
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CUSTOMS HOUSE AND ADJOINING WINGS, VICTORIA TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263124
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old Customs House and Adjoining Wings
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CUSTOMS HOUSE AND ADJOINING WINGS, VICTORIA TERRACE
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:
- OLD CUSTOMS HOUSE AND ADJOINING WINGS, VICTORIA TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 51436 32890
Details
HARTLEPOOL VICTORIA TERRACE NZ 5132 11/133 Old Customs House, and adjoining wings.
GV II
Ship Hotel, c.1844, converted to Customs House 1880, and commercial use 1911; slightly later wings. Cream Pease brick with painted stone dressings and Welsh slate roofs. 3 storeys, 5-bay ground floor, 3-bay upper floors, framed by giant clasping pilasters and pedimented gable. Central 4-panelled double doors and overlight with margin lights and glazing bars, under porch of 2 square columns and entablature. Pilasters between ground-floor sash windows; glazing bars missing from lower parts of sashes in left-hand bays. Sashes with glazing bars to first floor, the centre window flanked by pilasters. Late C20 glazing to 2nd-floor windows, over plain recessed aprons. All windows have sills and lintels continued as bands. 4 slightly projecting tall lateral stacks, to left and right returns. Slightly setback 2-storey, single-bay wings to left and right, that to left being taller. Both have clasping pilasters, sash windows with glazing bars, altered on ground floor, and hipped roofs. Left-hand wing has continuous timber eaves fascia and paired brackets to gutters; its 6-bay return has sash windows with glazing bars, and a similar doorway and porch. Right-hand wing has 5- bay return with similar doorway, porch and sash windows. Mid/late C20 red brick extensions to rear are not of interest. Disused at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ5143632890
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433123
- 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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