Southwick, The Green, No. 51, The Tramcar Inn

HER Number:
7211

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Southwick, The Green, No. 51, The Tramcar Inn

Place:
Southwick

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Civil

Site Type: Broad:
Licensed Premises

Site Type: Specific:
Public House

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Public house 1906 by HTD Hedley. Glazed brown and yellow tile ground floor, bright red brick of varying tones above. Sandstone ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Returns white glazed brick. Gable to street has two storeys and attic. Exuberent Jacobean style. Ground floor has door flanking 3 windows, in arcade with Corinthian columns forming doorcases. Panelled plinth below windows has low-relief cartouches and foliage in spandrels. Entablature has frieze with Art Nouveau TRAM CAR INN in low-relief letters. Left door blocked. First floor mullion window with shaped gable with ball-and-cushion finial. Cast-iron drainpipes. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3832

Northing:
5847

Grid Reference:
NZ38325847

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/8/291; P. Gibson, 1986, Southwick, p 25