Bede Tower
Bede Tower, Burdon Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279563
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bede Tower
- Statutory Address:
- Bede Tower, Burdon Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279563
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bede Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bede Tower, Burdon 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:
- Bede Tower, Burdon Road
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 39825 56211
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3956SE BURDON ROAD
920-1/22/22 (East side (off))
GV II
(Formerly Listed as Bede Tower at Sunderland Polytechnic)
Villa, in use as polytechnic building at time of listing. 1851. By J and B
Green for AJ Moore, Mayor of Sunderland. Ashlar with graduated
grey slate roof. Italianate style.
2 storeys; 5-stage tower and 3 windows; right return garden
front 5 windows. N elevation: tower has plinth, steps up to
rusticated porch with impost string to open round-headed arch
and smaller round-headed open light on right return;
4-panelled door and semicircular overlight in roll-moulded
surround; first floor string with pierced balustrade to
balcony on big moulded brackets in front of keyed round-headed
window with impost blocks; narrow window on right return;
projecting quoins and floor strings to upper stages with
paired lights on third, single on fourth and triple stepped
lights on fifth below prominent modillioned eaves cornice with
acroteria; low pitched pyramidal roof. Gabled bay set back at
right has prominent quoins above plinth and similar jambs to
tripartite ground floor sashes with flat stone lintel and
stone mullions; small inserted light at left; first floor
string continuing from tower; first floor blank below impost
string continuing from tower second stage as sill band to 3
wide lights with flat stone lintels; prominent eaves on paired
curved brackets.
Right return garden front has projecting jambs and rusticated
voussoirs to ground-floor windows, and impost string below
architraves of keyed first-floor windows, all 4-pane sashes,
the 2nd-4th in a canted bay with hipped roof on gabled
projction; paired eaves brackets. Roof has corniced panelled
ridge chimneys.
Sports Hall added to rear.
(Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People:
Sunderland: 1988-: 61; Buildings of England: Pevsner revised
Williamson: County Durham: Harmondsworth: 1983-: 461).
Listing NGR: NZ3982556211
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391397
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 61
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: County Durham, (1983)
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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