St George's House With Attached Steps, Railings and Yard Walls
ST GEORGE'S HOUSE WITH ATTACHED STEPS, RAILINGS AND YARD WALLS, PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292629
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- St George's House With Attached Steps, Railings and Yard Walls
- Statutory Address:
- ST GEORGE'S HOUSE WITH ATTACHED STEPS, RAILINGS AND YARD WALLS, PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292629
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St George's House With Attached Steps, Railings and Yard Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST GEORGE'S HOUSE WITH ATTACHED STEPS, RAILINGS AND YARD WALLS, PARK ROAD
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:
- ST GEORGE'S HOUSE WITH ATTACHED STEPS, RAILINGS AND YARD WALLS, PARK ROAD
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 39676 56315
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3956SE PARK ROAD
920-1/22/170 (North side)
10/11/78 St George's House with attached
steps, railings and yard walls
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK ROAD
(North side)
St George's House)
GV II
Also known as: St George's Building, Sunderland Polytechnic
PARK ROAD.
House with steps and railings to door, and yard walls. Used
for teaching accommodation by Sunderland Polytechnic at the
time of listing.
c1855. Garden wall bond brick (5 and 1) with ashlar dressings;
Welsh slate roof. Stone steps and cast-iron railings on S
side. Brick walls and piers with ashlar coping.
EXTERIOR: S and left return elevations have basement and 2
storeys; 4 windows. S elevation: steps up to 3-panel door in
third bay, with plain overlight, in doorcase of engaged,
fluted quasi-Corinthian octagonal columns and dentil cornice
to entablature which breaks forward above columns. Basement
has banded rustication and sashes with glazing bars. Other
sashes, tripartite on ground floor left return, have stone
sills and architraves each with frieze and cornice. Hipped
roof of moderate pitch has C20 dormer. Right return has
set-back C20 addition.
High ashlar-coped walls break forward from right to enclose
yard, and have square brick piers of same height at corners
and forming central entrance to Park Road and side vehicle
entrance on right return of yard. Originally part of St
George's Place, a square which was damaged in WWII.
(Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People:
Sunderland: 1988-: 61,64).
Listing NGR: NZ3967656315
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391550
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 61, 64
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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