Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3957SE HIGH STREET WEST
920-1/18/105 (North side)
10/11/78 Nos.114-118 (Consecutive)
Register Buildings
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET WEST
(North side)
Nos.114-118 (Consecutive))

GV II

Offices for Registrar and Poor Law Guardians. 1856. By Thomas
Moore. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Gothic style. 3:2:3
storeys, 4:3:4 windows. Altered ground floor has C20 shops.
Central gabled section has 3 lancets under dripstring with
central crocketed ogee; pierced quatrefoils flank finial.
Pilasters defining gable have cusped panels and rise to
octagonal pinnacles and spirelets with Tudor-flower finials.
Gable has pierced panelled parapet with intermediate spirelets
and finials. Flanking sections have label moulds and splayed
reveals to sashes with glazing bars, some renewed; 4 right
bays have original fine glazing bars to most windows; one wide
C20 window inserted. Moulded gutter cornice.
(Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle
upon Tyne: 1983-: 15, 20).

Listing NGR: NZ3983257178

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502261

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Recommended Books

• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)