Sunderland. Fawcett Street, Woolworths Building

HER Number:
17778

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland. Fawcett Street, Woolworths Building

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Shop

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
A 1930s building constructed for F.W. Woolworth on the site of the former Queen’s Hotel. The Queen’s Hotel opened in 1857 with an early 20th-century arcade and shops. By the 1920s Woolworths occupied the two shops and subsequently redeveloped the plot to construct a retail store. The new retail store was constructed in an Art Deco style with a steel frame and faience cladding. The building was later occupied by Primark.

Easting:
39756

Northing:
57088

Grid Reference:
NZ3975657088

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates