21 AND 22, FAWCETT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208224
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:: 21 AND 22, FAWCETT STREET
Statutory Address:: 21 AND 22, FAWCETT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208224
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: 21 AND 22, FAWCETT STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 21 AND 22, FAWCETT STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 21 AND 22, FAWCETT STREET

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District:: Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 39775 56965

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SUNDERLAND

NZ3956NE FAWCETT STREET 920-1/20/69 (East side) 10/11/78 Nos.21 AND 22 (Formerly Listed as: FAWCETT STREET (East side) No 21 (Corders) and No 22 (Sydenham House))

GV II

Cafe, shop and offices; now shops. 1889-91. By Frank Caws; contractors David and John Rankin; terracotta by JC Edwards. Brick and terracotta ; roof plain tiles; concrete fireproof flooring. Eclectic mixture of Gothic and Baroque/Flemish styles. No.21 at left 3 storeys, 6 windows under 2 gables with attics; No.22 at right 3 storeys, 3 windows with attic in central gable. Both with altered shop fronts. No.21 has ground-floor panelled fascia and cusped arcaded frieze with roll-moulded coping. Projecting canted bays on arcaded first floor are flanked by narrow lights with Gothic capitals to pilasters and elaborate heads over central lights of canted bays; all with paired, mullioned cusped overlights and dripstring. Second- floor central balustraded balcony has panels with Gothic letters; curvilinear windows with paired arcaded top lights have shallow canted centres under balustraded attic balconies. Elliptical-headed cusped attic arches to recessed windows are flanked by scrolls and pilasters which rise to high shaped gables with terracotta patterns, central oval lights, and raised segmental pediments. Dates 1856 and 1890 in outer panels at eaves level. Steeply pitched roof has central lantern with Gothic lights and high conical roof. No.22 at right has moulded ground floor fascia and frieze below full-width balcony with stone balustrade. First-floor windows, tripartite in centre and paired in outer bays, have upper glazing bars in curvilinear heads below swags and second-floor balcony which projects in centre over panelled pilasters defining first floor central bay. Square-headed second floor lights have raised arches with pendants, the central bay defined by plain pilasters with scrolled pediment heads, under panelled band and outer scrolled pediments. Central attic gable has raised segmental pediment over eclectic tracery of wide arched light containing smaller cusped lights. Steeply pitched roof has end chimney. Frank Caws' own office was in these buildings. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 7; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 163).

Listing NGR: NZ3977556965

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 391447
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 7
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 163

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.