Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956NE JOHN STREET
920-1/20/133 (West side)
County Court with attached steps and
railings

GV II

County Court with steps, dwarf walls and railings attached.
Dated 1876. Ashlar, first floor bright red brick in English
bond with ashlar dressings. Roof not visible. Free Baroque
style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. 7 windows. Rusticated ground
floor has steps up to double 8-panelled doors and plain
overlights in end bays. Doorcases have lugged architrave
surrounds, with corner paterae, in fluted hollow reveals
flanked by long scroll brackets supporting cornice and
entablature with hood. Long keystones from architrave to hood
have carved heads: at left, blindfolded Justice, at right,
Queen Victoria and date 1876. Ground floor with channelled
rustication has wide sill band to sashes with moulded
architraves. Basement has plain reveals to fixed lights with
glazing bars. First floor sashes have architraves under
panelled frieze and cornice. Top entablature has COUNTY COURT
incised in panel under brick fascia and prominent modillioned
gutter cornice with blocking course.
Square topped dwarf walls flanking steps to each door have
spear-headed cast-iron railings which continue along chamfered
area wall.

Listing NGR: NZ3983056868

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502272

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas