Numbers 17-29 With Steps and Handrails Attached

NUMBERS 17-29 WITH STEPS AND HANDRAILS ATTACHED, FREDERICK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1279888
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:
Numbers 17-29 With Steps and Handrails Attached
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 17-29 WITH STEPS AND HANDRAILS ATTACHED, FREDERICK STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1279888
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1978
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
Numbers 17-29 With Steps and Handrails Attached
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 17-29 WITH STEPS AND HANDRAILS ATTACHED, FREDERICK STREET

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 17-29 WITH STEPS AND HANDRAILS ATTACHED, FREDERICK STREET

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 39903 56874

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956NE FREDERICK STREET 920-1/20/82 (West side) 10/11/78 Nos.17-29 (Consecutive) with steps and handrails attached (Formerly Listed as: FREDERICK STREET (West side) Nos.17-29 (Consecutive))

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Terrace of 13 houses, now offices, with steps and handrails attached. c1830. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one), some painted, with painted ashlar dressings; No.20 refaced in cement imitating rusticated stone. Welsh slate roof wih brick chimneys. Wrought-iron balustrades to steps. Each house 2 storeys, with basements to all except No.29 at left (obscured by one-storey shop No.27 Borough Road (not listed)) and 2 windows. Steps up to Sunderland style doorways at right of each house. Doorcases of pilasters with Greek fret supporting plain entablature to 6-panelled double doors which fold back to form panelled reveals to inner 4-panelled doors with overlights. Renewed doors and ground floor windows to Nos 20, 23, 24, 25. No.29 has doorcase with lost cornice at right, inserted entrance at left. Steps have plain wrought-iron railings and handrails. Dwarf walls and area railings being renewed at time of survey.

Listing NGR: NZ3990356874

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
391458
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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