WHEATSHEAF HOTEL PUBLIC HOUSE

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 207, ROKER AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279904
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:: WHEATSHEAF HOTEL PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: WHEATSHEAF HOTEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 207, ROKER AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279904
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: WHEATSHEAF HOTEL PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WHEATSHEAF HOTEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 207, ROKER AVENUE

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:: WHEATSHEAF HOTEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 207, ROKER AVENUE

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 39709 57939

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ3957 ROKER AVENUE 920-1/11/178 (South side) 10/11/78 No.207 Wheatsheaf Hotel Public House (Formerly Listed as: ROKER AVENUE (South side) The Wheatsheaf Hotel)

II

Public house. 1897-8. By S Oswald & Son. For Bell & Taylor. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth and door architraves; roof of graduated slates with ashlar chimneys. Roughly triangular plan, the W side rounded; classical style. 3 storeys; 4 windows to Roker Avenue, 6 on rounded corner, one wider on Thomas Street North. Rusticated ground floor has doors in 2nd and 6th bays of curved section and in 3rd bay on Roker Avenue; these are 6-panelled, with plain overlights, in granite architraves with scroll brackets supporting segmental pediment hoods. Ground-floor windows are fixed lights with some opening transom lights, and rusticated voussoirs with triple keys rising through frieze to cornice of ground-floor entablature. Upper floors have bays defined by rusticated pilasters with Ionic capitals supporting big dentilled entablature with WHEAT SHEAF HOTEL incised on frieze in well-cut letters. Sash windows have upper glazing bars, in architraves, those on first floor corniced, with ogee pediments to those above doors and in bay between doors on curve; blind bays on second floor above doors in curve have low-relief carved wheatsheaf. Roof has curved hip over curved end; 3 tall corniced ashlar chimneys. An important building at the junction of 6 roads. (Pearson L F: The Northumbrian Pub an Architectural History: Warkworth: 1989-: 98-9).

Listing NGR: NZ3970957939

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Legacy System number:: 391556
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pearson, L F , The Northumbrian Pub an Architectural History, (1989), 98-9

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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.