The Tramcar Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. Public house.
The Tramcar Inn
- WRENN ID
- cold-dormer-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1978
- Type
- Public house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tramcar Inn is a public house built in 1906 by HTD Hedley, showcasing an exuberant Jacobean style. The ground floor features glazed brown and yellow tiles, while the upper part is constructed with bright red brick in varying tones, accented with sandstone ashlar dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate with stone gable copings. The building has a two-storey gable facing the street, with an attic and one wide window.
On the ground floor, there are doors flanking three windows, arranged in an arcade supported by plain Corinthian columns on high plinths that form the doorcases. Below the windows, there is a panelled plinth, and the windows have keyed round heads adorned with low-relief cartouches and foliage in the spandrels. An entablature features a pulvinated frieze with the name "TRAM CAR INN" in low-relief letters, and there are broken pediments over the doors. The left door is blocked, while the right door is panelled with a plain overlight above.
The first floor includes a five-light window with mullions and transoms, featuring irregular block jambs within a flush stone surround. Above this, a three-light mullion window rises into a shaped gable topped with a ball-and-cushion finial. Roof drainage holes are located below the feet of the gable, accompanied by cast-iron drainpipes. Late 20th-century signboards for WHITBREAD and TRAMCAR INN are attached to the front of the building.
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