51 The Green, The Tramcar Inn
51 The Green, The Tramcar Inn
HER Number
7211
District
Sunderland
Site Name
51 The Green, The Tramcar Inn
Place
Southwick
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Eating and Drinking Establishment
Site Type: Specific
Public House
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Public house 1906 by HTD Hedley. Glazed brown and yellow tile ground floor, bright red brick of varying tones above. Sandstone ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Returns white glazed brick. Gable to street has two storeys and attic. Exuberent Jacobean style. Ground floor has door flanking 3 windows, in arcade with Corinthian columns forming doorcases. Panelled plinth below windows has low-relief cartouches and foliage in spandrels. Entablature has frieze with Art Nouveau TRAM CAR INN in low-relief letters. Left door blocked. First floor mullion window with shaped gable with ball-and-cushion finial. Cast-iron drainpipes. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
438320
Northing
558470
Grid Reference
NZ438320558470
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/8/291; P. Gibson, 1986, Southwick, p 25