1-29, THORNHILL TERRACE

1-29, THORNHILL TERRACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292039
Date first listed:
17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
1-29, THORNHILL TERRACE
Statutory Address:
1-29, THORNHILL TERRACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292039
Date first listed:
17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
1-29, THORNHILL TERRACE
Statutory Address 1:
1-29, THORNHILL TERRACE

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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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:
1-29, THORNHILL TERRACE

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 39133 56408

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956SW THORNHILL TERRACE 920-1/21/220 (North side) Nos.1-29 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of 29 houses. c1865. Garden wall bond brick with painted stucco dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys and tall round yellow pots. Each house 2 storeys, 3 windows. Paired 4-panelled doors with plain overlights have architraves supporting entablature with bracketed cornice which breaks forward at sides and centre of each pair. Inner reveal panelled on side opposite hinge, forming panelled reveals to inner dinner door when main door open. Ground-floor canted bay window to each house has pilasters and cornice and elliptical-headed lights; first floor sill band supports windows with elliptical heads and architraves; all margined sashes. Eaves gutter cornice on eaves band with paired brackets; gabled dormers, some wider, with side consoles, contain sashes with jewelled keys in round-arched heads. Some dormers altered. Panelled chimneys have ashlar cornices.

Listing NGR: NZ3913356408

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
391621
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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