The Tramcar Inn

SUNDERLAND

NZ3858 THE GREEN, Southwick 920-1/8/291 (South side) 10/11/78 No.51 The Tramcar Inn (Formerly Listed as: THE GREEN, Southwick The Tram Car Inn)

GV II

Public house. 1906. By HTD Hedley. Glazed brown and yellow tile ground floor, bright red brick of varying tones above with sandstone ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Returns white glazed brick. Gable to street has two storeys and attic, one wide window. Exuberant Jacobean style. Ground floor has doors flanking 3 windows, in arcade with attached plain Corinthian columns on high plinths forming doorcases; panelled plinth below windows; keyed round heads with low-relief cartouches and foliage in spandrels. Entablature has pulvinated frieze with Art Nouveau TRAM CAR INN in low-relief letters; broken pediments over doors. Left door blocked, right panelled with plain overlight. First floor mullion and transom 5-light window has irregular block jambs to flush stone surround; similar style 3-light mullion window above rises into shaped gable with ball-and-cushion finial. Roof drainage holes below feet of gable with cast-iron drainpipes. Late C20 signboards WHITBREAD and TRAMCAR INN attached to front. (Gibson P: Southwick: Sunderland: 1986-: 25).

Listing NGR: NZ3832858479