The Londonderry Public House

SUNDERLAND

NZ3957SW HIGH STREET WEST 920-1/17/112 (South side) 10/11/78 The Londonderry Public House

GV II

Public house. 1901-2. By HTD Hedley. Sandstone ashlar with granite entrance columns; roof graduated Lakeland slate with lead turrets and ashlar chimneys. Triangular plan. Free Baroque style. 2 storeys, with round turrets one storey higher at N and W corners; 8 bays on E, 5 on S and 9 on NW. All fronts have 2 orders of pilasters, each with plinth, sill string and entablature, and top parapet. Ground-floor windows have hollow reveals and rusticated elliptical heads, the projecting voussoirs rising to the entablature; first-floor windows have round arched architraves with scroll keys rising to entablature. N canted entrance bay has double panelled doors below arched recess with carved decoration below big cyma-moulded key bracket supporting turret, which has 2 levels of mullioned windows below top entablature and ogee dome with disc and spike finial. Similar corner turret over W canted entrance. SE corner entrance has granite column at corner and ashlar half-columns at sides on high plinths, flanking steps up to recessed double door at left; open pedimented gabled dormers on each front of ogee-hipped slated dome. NW front has central double doors in rusticated round arch with long keystone to stone mullion and transom first-floor oriel; open pedimented dormers above central 3 bays, flanked by tall panelled chimneys rising from eaves, each with further flanking dormer; plain parapet over outer bays before corner turrets. S front has central wide entrance with shaped double doors. Etched glass in many windows with inscription LONDONDERRY HOTEL.

Listing NGR: NZ3940457044