Custom House
CUSTOM HOUSE, WEST SUNNISIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279881
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Custom House
- Statutory Address:
- CUSTOM HOUSE, WEST SUNNISIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279881
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Custom House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CUSTOM HOUSE, WEST SUNNISIDE
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:
- CUSTOM HOUSE, WEST SUNNISIDE
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 39933 57130
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3957SE WEST SUNNISIDE 920-1/18/239 (East side) Custom House
II
Custom House. c1900. Ashlar with pink granite door surround; roof of graduated Lakeland slate with stone gable copings. 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows. 6-panelled double door in set-back bay at left in granite architrave under panelled frieze with cornice on scroll brackets; painted carved Royal Arms above. At right, gabled projection with slightly projecting central panel containing wide ground floor mullioned and transomed window, in keyed round-arched rusticated architrave. Strings at first floor level and sills of first-floor 2-light mullion and transom windows, paired in gabled projection and framed by Tuscan pilasters; eaves gutter cornice. Similar paired windows in oriel of pedimented gable have scroll brackets to pilasters with entablature and cornice, and gable copings have pediments at base and at cornice of attic windows, the lower segmental and the upper with tall moulded finials. Steeply-pitched roof has 4-pane sash in tall pedimented dormer over entrance bay and tall paired ashlar chimneys rising from parapet of right return, which has gabled second bay in plainer style than front gable.
Listing NGR: NZ3993357130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391648
- 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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