31, TOWN WALL, 62, SOUTHGATE

31, TOWN WALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1263209
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
31, TOWN WALL, 62, SOUTHGATE
Statutory Address:
31, TOWN WALL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1263209
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
31, TOWN WALL, 62, SOUTHGATE
Statutory Address 1:
31, TOWN WALL
Statutory Address 2:
62, SOUTHGATE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
31, TOWN WALL
Statutory Address:
62, SOUTHGATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Headland
National Grid Reference:
NZ 52564 33702

Details

HARTLEPOOL SOUTHGATE NZ 5233 (south side), Headland 8/108 No. 62 GV II

Incorporates No. 31 Town Wall. Bank, now a house and warehouse; mid/late C19. Painted brick with sandstone dressings and Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys and basement; 3 bays. Left-hand bay has panelled double doors in round-headed architrave under plain frieze and cornice. Round-headed ground floor windows have similar surrounds and sills on carved consoles which flank panelled aprons above continuous moulded plinth. Ground-floor entablature. Segmental-headed first-floor windows have stilted-arched architraves on Tuscan pilasters, under similar friezes and cornices. Segmental-headed 2nd-floor windows have eared and shouldered architraves, keystones, and sill string. Bracketed top entablature with overhanging cornice. All windows contain early/mid C20 casements; 2nd-floor windows have geometric-pattern ornamental ferramenta. Hipped and gabled roof with 2 corniced and banded stacks. 2-bay left return has round-headed ground-floor windows with sills and keys, and blocked segmental-headed upper-floor windows with sill bands. Chamfered quoins at angles. Contemporary 4-bay rear wing has segmental-headed sash windows with glazing bars and upper-floor sill bands. 2nd bay from left, has Gibbs surround to doorway reached by 4 stone steps. Early C20 single-storey rear extension : No. 31 Town Wall (north-side); with canted bay window, moulded eaves cornice and parapet supporting balustrade of horizontal rails, enclosing flat sun-deck roof. Tall brick stack to west side of roof.

Listing NGR: NZ5256433702

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
432921
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.

Ordnance survey map of 31, TOWN WALL, 62, SOUTHGATE

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