Description

HARTLEPOOL VICTORIA TERRACE NZ 5132 11/133 Old Customs House, and adjoining wings.

GV II

Ship Hotel, c.1844, converted to Customs House 1880, and commercial use 1911; slightly later wings. Cream Pease brick with painted stone dressings and Welsh slate roofs. 3 storeys, 5-bay ground floor, 3-bay upper floors, framed by giant clasping pilasters and pedimented gable. Central 4-panelled double doors and overlight with margin lights and glazing bars, under porch of 2 square columns and entablature. Pilasters between ground-floor sash windows; glazing bars missing from lower parts of sashes in left-hand bays. Sashes with glazing bars to first floor, the centre window flanked by pilasters. Late C20 glazing to 2nd-floor windows, over plain recessed aprons. All windows have sills and lintels continued as bands. 4 slightly projecting tall lateral stacks, to left and right returns. Slightly setback 2-storey, single-bay wings to left and right, that to left being taller. Both have clasping pilasters, sash windows with glazing bars, altered on ground floor, and hipped roofs. Left-hand wing has continuous timber eaves fascia and paired brackets to gutters; its 6-bay return has sash windows with glazing bars, and a similar doorway and porch. Right-hand wing has 5- bay return with similar doorway, porch and sash windows. Mid/late C20 red brick extensions to rear are not of interest. Disused at time of survey.

Listing NGR: NZ5143632890

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