Description

HARTLEPOOL VICTORIA TERRACE
NZ 5132
11/133 Old Customs House, and
adjoining wings.

GV II

Ship Hotel, c.1844, converted to Customs House 1880, and commercial use
1911; slightly later wings. Cream Pease brick with painted stone dressings
and Welsh slate roofs. 3 storeys, 5-bay ground floor, 3-bay upper floors,
framed by giant clasping pilasters and pedimented gable. Central 4-panelled
double doors and overlight with margin lights and glazing bars, under porch
of 2 square columns and entablature. Pilasters between ground-floor sash
windows; glazing bars missing from lower parts of sashes in left-hand bays.
Sashes with glazing bars to first floor, the centre window flanked by
pilasters. Late C20 glazing to 2nd-floor windows, over plain recessed
aprons. All windows have sills and lintels continued as bands. 4 slightly
projecting tall lateral stacks, to left and right returns. Slightly setback
2-storey, single-bay wings to left and right, that to left being taller.
Both have clasping pilasters, sash windows with glazing bars, altered on
ground floor, and hipped roofs. Left-hand wing has continuous timber eaves
fascia and paired brackets to gutters; its 6-bay return has sash windows
with glazing bars, and a similar doorway and porch. Right-hand wing has 5-
bay return with similar doorway, porch and sash windows. Mid/late C20 red
brick extensions to rear are not of interest. Disused at time of survey.

Listing NGR: NZ5143632890

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553934

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)