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Latitude: 54.9073 / 54°54'26"N
Longitude: -1.3792 / 1°22'45"W
OS Eastings: 439898
OS Northings: 557134
OS Grid: NZ398571
Mapcode National: GBR VD3.57
Mapcode Global: WHD55.SXDB
Plus Code: 9C6WWJ4C+W8
Entry Name: Central Buildings
Listing Date: 17 October 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1291987
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391647
ID on this website: 101291987
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
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SUNDERLAND
NZ3957SE WEST SUNNISIDE
920-1/18/238 (West side)
Central Buildings
GV II
Offices. c1900. Ashlar; Welsh slate roof with stone gable
coping. 3 storeys and basement, 9 windows. Double doors, each
6-panelled, and semicircular overlight below 3rd and 4th
windows in doorcase of keyed architrave in frame of fluted
pilasters and scrolled pediment rising between first-floor
windows. Secondary 6-panelled door in first bay with block
rustication to lower part of Tuscan engaged columns supporting
entablature with pulvinated frieze and segmental pediment.
Plain sashes, except for wide window in two right end
ground-floor bays, in plain reveals with sill strings; triple
keystones on ground floor, top floor with enablature with
CENTRAL BUILDINGS incised in frieze below prominent eaves
gutter cornice; shaped gable over 3 right bays contains paired
windows between pilasters with monogram in pedimented
aedicule; balustrade from gable to left end.
Listing NGR: NZ3989857134
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