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Latitude: 54.8396 / 54°50'22"N
Longitude: -1.3347 / 1°20'4"W
OS Eastings: 442828
OS Northings: 549618
OS Grid: NZ428496
Mapcode National: GBR MD3G.VY
Mapcode Global: WHD5L.GMN8
Plus Code: 9C6WRMQ8+R4
Entry Name: The Londonderry Institute and Forecourt Wall
Listing Date: 21 June 1950
Last Amended: 14 February 1985
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1232455
English Heritage Legacy ID: 407844
ID on this website: 101232455
Location: Seaham, County Durham, SR7
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Seaham
Built-Up Area: Seaham
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Seaham Harbour and Dawdon
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Architectural structure
In the entry for
NZ 44 NW SEAHAM TEMPEST ROAD
(south side)
4/42 No 18, The Londonderry
Institute and forecourt
21.6.50 wall (formerly listed
under Tempest Place)
II
The grade shall be amended to read: Grade II* (star)
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NZ 44 NW SEAHAM TEMPEST ROAD
(south side)
4/42 No 18, The Londonderry
Institute
and forecourt wall
21.6.50 II (Formerly listed
under Tempest
Place)
Former Literary and Scientific Institute. 1853-5 by Thomas Oliver. Grey sandstone
ashlar with low-pitched Welsh slate roofs. T-plan with projecting portico. Greek
Revival style. Single storey, 5-bay frontage with single-bay returns and 3 x 2-bay
wing to rear. Street facade has 3-bay centre, with tetrastyle Doric portico on 3-
step stylobate, and flanking single-bay wings. Portico has pediment with corniced
acroterion. Openings have battered eared architraves and raised sills. Central
pair of massive 4-panel doors, with riveted iron framing to panels,are flanked by
single windows. Single bays to left and right with similar windows are articulated
by pilasters. Frieze has triglyphs and blank metopes. Single-bay returns framed
by corner pilasters have similar windows and projecting pedimented gables. 3 bay-
rear wing has pilaster bay divisions, 3 windows and a plain frieze. 2 corniced
ashlar stacks at junctions of rear wing and returns. Interior: much altered and
in a state of disrepair at time of survey.
Forecourt has 6 stone piers and low chamfered wall; only one pier to left retains
its pyramidal cap.
Listing NGR: NZ4282849618
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