Sunderland, Fawcett Street, Gas Company Offices

HER Number:
17784

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Fawcett Street, Gas Company Offices

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Unassigned

Site Type: Broad:
Building

Site Type: Specific:
Office

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Former Gas Company Offices built in 1867, the first commercial building in Fawcett Street. The building was designed by G.G. Hoskins of Darlington. It is constructed out of brick with sandstone dressing in a High Victorian Gothic style. There is an oriel window in the centre above a granite column with carved foliage.

Easting:
3975

Northing:
5682

Grid Reference:
NZ39755682

Lats/Lons:

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