Numbers 48-58 With Steps and Railings Attached
NUMBERS 48-58 WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, JOHN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293017
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 48-58 With Steps and Railings Attached
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 48-58 WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, JOHN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293017
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 48-58 With Steps and Railings Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 48-58 WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, JOHN STREET
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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:
- NUMBERS 48-58 WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, JOHN STREET
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 39814 56981
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3956NE JOHN STREET 920-1/20/132 (West side) 08/05/50 Nos.48-58 (Consecutive) with steps and railings attached (Formerly Listed as: JOHN STREET (West side) Nos.48-55, 56-58 (Consecutive))
GV II
Terrace of 11 houses, now offices, with steps, dwarf walls and railings attached. c1840. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one), most with tuck pointing, and painted ashlar basements and dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Stone steps and dwarf walls and cast and wrought-iron railings. EXTERIOR: each 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Basements have channelled rustication. End pairs of houses treated as pavilions, with giant pilasters and doors paired at centre; others have doors at right. Steps up to panelled doors of Sunderland type, folding back to form reveals of inner doors, most with round central panels. Doorcases of fluted Doric columns supporting entablature with palmette and anthemion frieze, except No.57 which has square Tuscan pilasters and No.58 which has lost doorcase. Wedge stone lintels and sill strings between corner pilasters to sash windows, some renewed and some with glazing bars. Hipped roof has transverse ridge chimneys and some added dormers, No.49 a Sunderland type with slate-hung sides, canted bay and hipped roof. No.48 has left return to Athenaeum Street with giant pilasters; 2 windows on each floor, the left ground floor window a canted bay, and sill strings between corner pilasters. Most steps up to doors have moulded steps and tread ends; balustrades have linking central rosettes and plain wrought handrails; railings mostly spear-headed, some renewed.
Listing NGR: NZ3981456981
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391510
- 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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