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Latitude: 54.905 / 54°54'17"N
Longitude: -1.3803 / 1°22'49"W
OS Eastings: 439830
OS Northings: 556868
OS Grid: NZ398568
Mapcode National: GBR VCY.59
Mapcode Global: WHD55.RZW5
Plus Code: 9C6WWJ39+XV
Entry Name: County Court with Attached Steps and Railings
Listing Date: 17 October 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1207102
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391511
ID on this website: 101207102
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: Architectural structure
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
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