THE LONDONDERRY PUBLIC HOUSE

THE LONDONDERRY PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET WEST

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293067
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:: THE LONDONDERRY PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE LONDONDERRY PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET WEST

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Date:: 1999-08-22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293067
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:: THE LONDONDERRY PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE LONDONDERRY PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET WEST

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE LONDONDERRY PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET WEST

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 39404 57044

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ3957SW HIGH STREET WEST 920-1/17/112 (South side) 10/11/78 The Londonderry Public House

GV II

Public house. 1901-2. By HTD Hedley. Sandstone ashlar with granite entrance columns; roof graduated Lakeland slate with lead turrets and ashlar chimneys. Triangular plan. Free Baroque style. 2 storeys, with round turrets one storey higher at N and W corners; 8 bays on E, 5 on S and 9 on NW. All fronts have 2 orders of pilasters, each with plinth, sill string and entablature, and top parapet. Ground-floor windows have hollow reveals and rusticated elliptical heads, the projecting voussoirs rising to the entablature; first-floor windows have round arched architraves with scroll keys rising to entablature. N canted entrance bay has double panelled doors below arched recess with carved decoration below big cyma-moulded key bracket supporting turret, which has 2 levels of mullioned windows below top entablature and ogee dome with disc and spike finial. Similar corner turret over W canted entrance. SE corner entrance has granite column at corner and ashlar half-columns at sides on high plinths, flanking steps up to recessed double door at left; open pedimented gabled dormers on each front of ogee-hipped slated dome. NW front has central double doors in rusticated round arch with long keystone to stone mullion and transom first-floor oriel; open pedimented dormers above central 3 bays, flanked by tall panelled chimneys rising from eaves, each with further flanking dormer; plain parapet over outer bays before corner turrets. S front has central wide entrance with shaped double doors. Etched glass in many windows with inscription LONDONDERRY HOTEL.

Listing NGR: NZ3940457044

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Legacy System number:: 391492
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.