Tavistock House
TAVISTOCK HOUSE, TAVISTOCK PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279873
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Tavistock House
- Statutory Address:
- TAVISTOCK HOUSE, TAVISTOCK PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279873
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Tavistock House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TAVISTOCK HOUSE, TAVISTOCK PLACE
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:
- TAVISTOCK HOUSE, TAVISTOCK PLACE
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 40005 56834
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ4056 TAVISTOCK PLACE 920-1/14/219 (North side) 10/11/78 Tavistock House
II
House, now offices. c1830. Brick with ashlar dressings; coursed limestone rubble rear elevation and right return of extension; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. 2 storeys, 5 windows and lower right extension of 2 storeys, 2 windows. Central renewed glazed door and overlight in Doric doorcase with engaged columns, entablature and blocking course. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to renewed sashes, with first-floor sill band; extension has C20 paired windows under rebuilt lintels. Roof has wide end chimneys; extension roof hipped. Wide square-headed dormer at left, and smaller flat-headed dormer at right end. Right return has brick arch to round-headed window in rear half of gable peak section of chimney-stack.
Listing NGR: NZ4000556834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391610
- 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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