West Hendon House
WEST HENDON HOUSE, RYHOPE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279869
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- West Hendon House
- Statutory Address:
- WEST HENDON HOUSE, RYHOPE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279869
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- West Hendon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST HENDON HOUSE, RYHOPE 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:
- WEST HENDON HOUSE, RYHOPE 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 39799 55976
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3955 RYHOPE ROAD 920-1/16/199 (West side) 10/11/78 West Hendon House
GV II
House, now a home for the elderly. c1830,incorporating C18 house, with late C19/early C20 additions in similar style. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with tooled ashlar dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof; earlier house now rear wing is rendered. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 x 9 windows, with additions to left. Angle pilasters to main front, left tower addition and extension, and canted bays on right return. Original 3-window front has central half-glazed 4-panelled door and overlight in prostyle wood porch with square columns. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sash windows, some with glazing bars; deep eaves on paired scroll brackets, probably added later. Right return garden front has central and right parts added: glazed wooden porch flanked by wide canted bays with hipped roofs. Rear elevation shows Venetian stair window in main building; 2-storey, 3-window rendered earlier house, now kitchen wing, has sashes with glazing bars in broad boxes. INTERIOR shows Ionic screen in entrance hall; doors to right have architraves with paterae.
Listing NGR: NZ3979955976
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391577
- 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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