The Londonderry Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. Public house. 8 related planning applications.
The Londonderry Public House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-lime-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1978
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Londonderry Public House, High Street West, SR1 3ES
- OS grid reference
- NZ 394 570
- Coordinates
- 54.90657, -1.38699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Londonderry Public House is a public house built between 1901 and 1902 by HTD Hedley. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with granite entrance columns and features a roof made of graduated Lakeland slate, complete with lead turrets and ashlar chimneys. The building has a triangular plan and is designed in a Free Baroque style, standing two storeys tall with round turrets that rise one storey higher at the north and west corners. The east front has eight bays, the south front has five bays, and the northwest front has nine bays.
All sides of the building are adorned with two orders of pilasters, each featuring a plinth, sill string, entablature, and a top parapet. The ground-floor windows have hollow reveals and rusticated elliptical heads, with the projecting voussoirs extending up to the entablature. The first-floor windows are framed by round arched architraves with scroll keys that also rise to the entablature.
The north canted entrance bay features double panelled doors set within an arched recess, which is decorated with carvings beneath a large cyma-moulded key bracket that supports a turret. This turret has two levels of mullioned windows beneath a top entablature and an ogee dome topped with a disc and spike finial. A similar corner turret is located over the west canted entrance.
The southeast corner entrance includes a granite column at the corner and ashlar half-columns on the sides, both standing on high plinths, flanking steps that lead up to a recessed double door on the left. Each front has open pedimented gabled dormers with an ogee-hipped slated dome. The northwest front features central double doors within a rusticated round arch, which has a long keystone leading to a stone mullion and a transom first-floor oriel. Open pedimented dormers are positioned above the central three bays, flanked by tall panelled chimneys that rise from the eaves, each accompanied by further flanking dormers. The south front has a central wide entrance with shaped double doors. Many windows feature etched glass with the inscription "LONDONDERRY HOTEL."
Local climate
The Londonderry Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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