10, CHURCH STREET EAST

10, CHURCH STREET EAST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1279470
Date first listed:
08-May-1950
List Entry Name:
10, CHURCH STREET EAST
Statutory Address:
10, CHURCH STREET EAST
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1279470
Date first listed:
08-May-1950
List Entry Name:
10, CHURCH STREET EAST
Statutory Address 1:
10, CHURCH STREET EAST

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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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:
10, CHURCH STREET EAST

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 40503 57307

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ4057 CHURCH STREET EAST 920-1/12/43 (East side) 08/05/50 No.10

GV II*

House, now workshop and storage. Early C18; said to have been built in 1710 for John Freeman. Late C18-early C19 alterations. Double pile. Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings; dark slate roof with brick chimneys. 3 storeys and basement, 5 windows. Angle pilasters, floor strings (second rests on keystones), ground-floor band. Sashes with fine glazing bars, some renewed, under finely rubbed flat brick arches with keystones and stone sills to which projecting stone has been added. Some basement windows blind; some blocked at time of survey. Steps up to recessed flushed central door; lost doorcase. Two steeply pitched parallel-ridge roofs with end chimneys. At rear, 2 first-floor sashes with broad glazing bars and round-arched central stair window. INTERIOR: ground floor central passage. Architraves to doors, the right with upper part removed. Keyed arch on pilasters to stair in rear range. Before stair another arch at left to spine passage, walls removed. Entrance hall and stair have ramped dado rail. Dog-leg stair with winders. Shallow steps have block tread-ends, stick balusters and mahogany handrail of narrow, smooth early-C19 moulding but ramped to echo dado. First floor landing with wide keyed arches to either side and to lobby for rooms at front; front right room chimney-piece with pilasters and cornice; rear left first has plain stone surround and early-C18 cast-iron grate, bars removed; architraves to early-mid C18 sashes with ovolo-moulded broad glazing bars. Stair to second floor from lobby. Rear room has keyhole-shaped cast-iron grate, bars missing.

Listing NGR: NZ4050357307

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

Legacy System number:
391420
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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