British Listed Buildings

Listing Text

HARTLEPOOL SOUTHGATE
NZ 5233
(south side), Headland
8/108 No. 62

GV II

Incorporates No. 31 Town Wall. Bank, now a house and warehouse; mid/late
C19. Painted brick with sandstone dressings and Welsh slate roof. 3
storeys and basement; 3 bays. Left-hand bay has panelled double doors in
round-headed architrave under plain frieze and cornice. Round-headed ground
floor windows have similar surrounds and sills on carved consoles which
flank panelled aprons above continuous moulded plinth. Ground-floor
entablature. Segmental-headed first-floor windows have stilted-arched
architraves on Tuscan pilasters, under similar friezes and cornices.
Segmental-headed 2nd-floor windows have eared and shouldered architraves,
keystones, and sill string. Bracketed top entablature with overhanging
cornice. All windows contain early/mid C20 casements; 2nd-floor windows
have geometric-pattern ornamental ferramenta. Hipped and gabled roof with 2
corniced and banded stacks. 2-bay left return has round-headed ground-floor
windows with sills and keys, and blocked segmental-headed upper-floor
windows with sill bands. Chamfered quoins at angles. Contemporary 4-bay
rear wing has segmental-headed sash windows with glazing bars and
upper-floor sill bands. 2nd bay from left, has Gibbs surround to doorway
reached by 4 stone steps. Early C20 single-storey rear extension : No. 31
Town Wall (north-side); with canted bay window, moulded eaves cornice and
parapet supporting balustrade of horizontal rails, enclosing flat sun-deck
roof. Tall brick stack to west side of roof.


Listing NGR: NZ5256433702

Source: English Heritage

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