THE CROFT, FORMERLY TONSTALL SCHOOL TONSTALL SCHOOL

THE CROFT, FORMERLY TONSTALL SCHOOL, THORNEHOLME ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279876
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: THE CROFT, FORMERLY TONSTALL SCHOOL TONSTALL SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: THE CROFT, FORMERLY TONSTALL SCHOOL, THORNEHOLME ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279876
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: THE CROFT, FORMERLY TONSTALL SCHOOL TONSTALL SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: THE CROFT, FORMERLY TONSTALL SCHOOL, THORNEHOLME ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: TONSTALL SCHOOL, ABBOTSFORD GROVE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE CROFT, FORMERLY TONSTALL SCHOOL, THORNEHOLME ROAD
Statutory Address:: TONSTALL SCHOOL, ABBOTSFORD GROVE

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 39128 56238

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956SW THORNEHOLME ROAD 920-1/21/297 (North East side) 21/12/93 The Croft, formerly Tonstall School

II

Includes: The Crofts, formerly Tonstall School ABBOTSFORD GROVE. House. c1890, with alterations c1905. Designed by George T Brown. For Joseph L Thompson. Interiors refitted by William J Neatby. Red brick and tile-hung, with plain tile roofs. 2 brick stacks. 2 storey. South front has central doorway with glazed door and wooden hood. Above 3 single light plain sashes, and above again a 2-light dormer window. To right a 2-storey canted bay window each with 3 central lights and cross casements, and above a timber-framed gable with two, 2-light casements. To the left a canted bay window on the ground floor, with a projecting wing above supported on timber posts with tile hanging and a 3-light cross casement. West front has 2 storey canted bay windows on either side, both with tile hanging and 3-light cross casements, above each has a timber-framed gable with two, 2-light casements each. INTERIOR: the interiors largely date from the buildings refitting c1905 by William J Neatby, and they include some very original Art Nouveau style fittings. The staircase hall is panelled with an open well stair with splat balusters and square newels, plus panelled ceilings and fitted cupboards with stained glass. Most of the remaining rooms retain similar features, with a very fine group of tiled fireplaces with wooden surrounds and tile fronts, most with beaten brass hoods and fittings. Many rooms also have fitted cupboards with stained glass, and doors with similar glass and brass furniture. Some of the windows have stained glass. This building is listed for the extremely rare and unusual Art Nouveau decoration and fittings that it contains.

Listing NGR: NZ3912856238

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Legacy System number:: 391620
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.