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Latitude: 54.9073 / 54°54'26"N
Longitude: -1.3787 / 1°22'43"W
OS Eastings: 439933
OS Northings: 557131
OS Grid: NZ399571
Mapcode National: GBR VD5.B1
Mapcode Global: WHD55.SXNC
Plus Code: 9C6WWJ4C+WG
Entry Name: Custom House
Listing Date: 17 October 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1279881
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391648
ID on this website: 101279881
Location: Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR1
County: Sunderland
Electoral Ward/Division: Hendon
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Sunderland
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Hendon
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: House
SUNDERLAND
NZ3957SE WEST SUNNISIDE
920-1/18/239 (East side)
Custom House
II
Custom House. c1900. Ashlar with pink granite door surround;
roof of graduated Lakeland slate with stone gable copings. 2
storeys and attic, 3 windows. 6-panelled double door in
set-back bay at left in granite architrave under panelled
frieze with cornice on scroll brackets; painted carved Royal
Arms above. At right, gabled projection with slightly
projecting central panel containing wide ground floor
mullioned and transomed window, in keyed round-arched
rusticated architrave. Strings at first floor level and sills
of first-floor 2-light mullion and transom windows, paired in
gabled projection and framed by Tuscan pilasters; eaves gutter
cornice. Similar paired windows in oriel of pedimented gable
have scroll brackets to pilasters with entablature and
cornice, and gable copings have pediments at base and at
cornice of attic windows, the lower segmental and the upper
with tall moulded finials. Steeply-pitched roof has 4-pane
sash in tall pedimented dormer over entrance bay and tall
paired ashlar chimneys rising from parapet of right return,
which has gabled second bay in plainer style than front gable.
Listing NGR: NZ3993357130
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