Sunderland Exchange

SUNDERLAND EXCHANGE, 197, HIGH STREET EAST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207089
Date first listed:
08-May-1950
List Entry Name:
Sunderland Exchange
Statutory Address:
SUNDERLAND EXCHANGE, 197, HIGH STREET EAST
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207089
Date first listed:
08-May-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
Sunderland Exchange
Statutory Address 1:
SUNDERLAND EXCHANGE, 197, HIGH STREET EAST

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SUNDERLAND EXCHANGE, 197, HIGH STREET EAST

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NZ 40230 57301

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ4057 HIGH STREET EAST 920-1/12/100 (North side) 08/05/50 No.197 Sunderland Exchange (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET EAST (North side) No.197)

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Sunderland Exchange, later Missions to Seamen. 1812-1814. By Stokoe of Newcastle; builder George Cameron of Esk. Incised stucco; roof damaged by fire. Classical style. 2 storeys, 2:5:2 windows, the outer pairs projecting slightly under pediments. Round-headed doorways in right end bay of centre and recessed in end arches of ground floor arcade with impost string. First floor band below sashes with glazing bars, most glass broken at time of survey, in plain reveals. Simple top entablature with cornice rising to form pediments; blocking course abutting these and continuing outside them. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 8).

Listing NGR: NZ4023057301

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
391479
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914 (1983), 8

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Sunderland Exchange

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2025. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2025. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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