Central Buildings
CENTRAL BUILDINGS, WEST SUNNISIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291987
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Central Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL BUILDINGS, WEST SUNNISIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291987
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Central Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTRAL BUILDINGS, 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:
- CENTRAL BUILDINGS, 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 39898 57134
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3957SE WEST SUNNISIDE 920-1/18/238 (West side) Central Buildings
GV II
Offices. c1900. Ashlar; Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping. 3 storeys and basement, 9 windows. Double doors, each 6-panelled, and semicircular overlight below 3rd and 4th windows in doorcase of keyed architrave in frame of fluted pilasters and scrolled pediment rising between first-floor windows. Secondary 6-panelled door in first bay with block rustication to lower part of Tuscan engaged columns supporting entablature with pulvinated frieze and segmental pediment. Plain sashes, except for wide window in two right end ground-floor bays, in plain reveals with sill strings; triple keystones on ground floor, top floor with enablature with CENTRAL BUILDINGS incised in frieze below prominent eaves gutter cornice; shaped gable over 3 right bays contains paired windows between pilasters with monogram in pedimented aedicule; balustrade from gable to left end.
Listing NGR: NZ3989857134
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391647
- 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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