Wheatsheaf Hotel Public House
WHEATSHEAF HOTEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 207, ROKER AVENUE
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391556
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pearson, L F, The Northumbrian Pub an Architectural History, (1989), 98-9
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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