Latitude: 54.9146 / 54°54'52"N
Longitude: -1.3821 / 1°22'55"W
OS Eastings: 439709
OS Northings: 557939
OS Grid: NZ397579
Mapcode National: GBR VCN.FR
Mapcode Global: WHD55.RQ1S
Plus Code: 9C6WWJ79+R5
Entry Name: Wheatsheaf Hotel Public House
Listing Date: 10 November 1978
Last Amended: 17 October 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1279904
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391556
ID on this website: 101279904
Location: Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR6
County: Sunderland
Electoral Ward/Division: St Peter's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Sunderland
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Monkwearmouth Team Ministry
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Pub
SUNDERLAND
NZ3957 ROKER AVENUE 920-1/11/178 (South side) 10/11/78 No.207 Wheatsheaf Hotel Public House (Formerly Listed as: ROKER AVENUE (South side) The Wheatsheaf Hotel)
II
Public house. 1897-8. By S Oswald & Son. For Bell & Taylor. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth and door architraves; roof of graduated slates with ashlar chimneys. Roughly triangular plan, the W side rounded; classical style. 3 storeys; 4 windows to Roker Avenue, 6 on rounded corner, one wider on Thomas Street North. Rusticated ground floor has doors in 2nd and 6th bays of curved section and in 3rd bay on Roker Avenue; these are 6-panelled, with plain overlights, in granite architraves with scroll brackets supporting segmental pediment hoods. Ground-floor windows are fixed lights with some opening transom lights, and rusticated voussoirs with triple keys rising through frieze to cornice of ground-floor entablature. Upper floors have bays defined by rusticated pilasters with Ionic capitals supporting big dentilled entablature with WHEAT SHEAF HOTEL incised on frieze in well-cut letters. Sash windows have upper glazing bars, in architraves, those on first floor corniced, with ogee pediments to those above doors and in bay between doors on curve; blind bays on second floor above doors in curve have low-relief carved wheatsheaf. Roof has curved hip over curved end; 3 tall corniced ashlar chimneys. An important building at the junction of 6 roads. (Pearson L F: The Northumbrian Pub an Architectural History: Warkworth: 1989-: 98-9).
Listing NGR: NZ3970957939
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