Latitude: 54.9073 / 54°54'26"N
Longitude: -1.3787 / 1°22'43"W
OS Eastings: 439933
OS Northings: 557131
OS Grid: NZ399571
Mapcode National: GBR VD5.B1
Mapcode Global: WHD55.SXNC
Plus Code: 9C6WWJ4C+WG
Entry Name: Custom House
Listing Date: 17 October 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1279881
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391648
ID on this website: 101279881
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
Tagged with: House
SUNDERLAND
NZ3957SE WEST SUNNISIDE 920-1/18/239 (East side) Custom House
II
Custom House. c1900. Ashlar with pink granite door surround; roof of graduated Lakeland slate with stone gable copings. 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows. 6-panelled double door in set-back bay at left in granite architrave under panelled frieze with cornice on scroll brackets; painted carved Royal Arms above. At right, gabled projection with slightly projecting central panel containing wide ground floor mullioned and transomed window, in keyed round-arched rusticated architrave. Strings at first floor level and sills of first-floor 2-light mullion and transom windows, paired in gabled projection and framed by Tuscan pilasters; eaves gutter cornice. Similar paired windows in oriel of pedimented gable have scroll brackets to pilasters with entablature and cornice, and gable copings have pediments at base and at cornice of attic windows, the lower segmental and the upper with tall moulded finials. Steeply-pitched roof has 4-pane sash in tall pedimented dormer over entrance bay and tall paired ashlar chimneys rising from parapet of right return, which has gabled second bay in plainer style than front gable.
Listing NGR: NZ3993357130
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