SUNDERLAND EAST COMMUNITY CENTRE, FORMER SUNDERLAND ORPHANAGE
SUNDERLAND EAST COMMUNITY CENTRE, FORMER SUNDERLAND ORPHANAGE, MOOR TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207104
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- SUNDERLAND EAST COMMUNITY CENTRE, FORMER SUNDERLAND ORPHANAGE
- Statutory Address:
- SUNDERLAND EAST COMMUNITY CENTRE, FORMER SUNDERLAND ORPHANAGE, MOOR TERRACE

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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207104
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- SUNDERLAND EAST COMMUNITY CENTRE, FORMER SUNDERLAND ORPHANAGE
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNDERLAND EAST COMMUNITY CENTRE, FORMER SUNDERLAND ORPHANAGE, MOOR TERRACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SUNDERLAND EAST COMMUNITY CENTRE, FORMER SUNDERLAND ORPHANAGE, MOOR TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 40680 57051
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ4057 MOOR TERRACE
920-1/12/141 (North East side)
Sunderland East Community Centre,
former Sunderland Orphanage
GV II
Formerly known as: Sunderland Orphanage MOOR TERRACE.
Boys' orphanage, now community centre. 1858. By Childs and
Lucas, construction supervised by Thomas Moore. Brick with
ashlar plinth and dressings, Welsh slate roof. Irregular plan.
Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3-stage tower. 4:2:1:3 windows. All
surrounds stone. Tower projects with 2 windows and has open
porch with steps to paired keyed arches with impost string,
roundel in soffit, first floor sill string to 4-pane sashes
with segment heads to keyed lugged architraves. Impost string
to third stage triple lights with keyed round heads, eaves
band and bracketed cornice, low-pitched pyramidal roof,
returns have single arch, one lugged window, and paired
round-headed windows. 4 bays to left of tower have keyed round
heads on impost string to ground floor sashes, plain below and
with radiating glazing bars above, with projecting stone
sills. First-floor sashes with vertical glazing bars have
lugged architraves and segmental heads with long keystones.
Modillioned eaves entablature. To right of tower one wide bay
has renewed wide ground-floor window below bracketed cornice,
perhaps former balcony, and lugged surround to first-floor
stone-mullion 2-light window with renewed glazing. 3 right
bays set back with windows similar to 4 left bays on ground
floor, and on first floor single and paired windows with
renewed glazing in stone surrounds. Hipped roofs with ashlar
corniced ridge chimneys.
(Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People:
Sunderland: 1988-: 162).
Listing NGR: NZ4068057051
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391519
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 162
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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