CARETAKER'S COTTAGE TO CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY AND ATTACHED WALL
CARETAKER'S COTTAGE TO CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY AND ATTACHED WALL, CHURCH WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293305
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- CARETAKER'S COTTAGE TO CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY AND ATTACHED WALL
- Statutory Address:
- CARETAKER'S COTTAGE TO CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY AND ATTACHED WALL, CHURCH WALK

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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293305
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- CARETAKER'S COTTAGE TO CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY AND ATTACHED WALL
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARETAKER'S COTTAGE TO CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY AND ATTACHED WALL, CHURCH WALK
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:
- CARETAKER'S COTTAGE TO CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY AND ATTACHED WALL, CHURCH WALK
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 40637 57214
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ4057 CHURCH WALK
920-1/12/47 (South side)
10/11/78 Caretaker's cottage to Church of
Holy Trinity and attached wall
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH WALK
(South side)
Caretaker's Cottage to Church of
Holy Trinity)
GV II
Formerly Donnison school and school-mistress' house; now
cottage for caretaker of Holy Trinity Church, with wall
attached at left. 1798 on this site, founded under Mrs.
Elizabeth Donnison's will of 1764; extended 1827 at expense of
Mrs. Elizabeth Woodcock by addition of a house for a
school-mistress. Narrow brick, Flemish bond; painted ashlar
dressings; slate roof. Flemish bond brick wall with stone
coping breaks forward from left and joins yard wall along
street.
One storey, 3:4 bays. First build at right has plinth and
impost band to blank arcade and recessed left door surround,
with gauged brick arches. Top blocking course and raised panel
above 4-panelled door with patterned overlight; THE DONNISON
SCHOOL in top panel in low-relief letters. Low-pitched hipped
roof. Left building has similar door in round-headed surround
with gauged brick arch in projecting right entrance bay on
plinth; impost band to two left bays with gauged brick round
arches over fixed lights with glazing bars. Low-relief BOYS in
panel over door. Top blocking course. Low-pitched hipped roof
with tall left brick chimney-stack. Stone-coped wall set back
at left has blocked opening with projecting stone sill and
breaks forward with stepped stone coping to wall and to tall
brick pier on street front, returning along street front in
later bond for one bay containing blocked opening under flat
stone lintel.
Listing NGR: NZ4063757214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391424
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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