Former Sunderland Bridge Hotel to reopen
Articles on this website include The Sunderland Heritage Pub Trail and Grade II listed pubs. Doing research for the former involved on the ground detective work. So fellow CAMRA member Terry Ford and myself carried out a walking tour of Sunderland City Centre, making notes and taking photographs. This was in August 2023 and one such former pub we sought out was the former Bridge Hotel to the east off Sunderland City Centre.
The former Bridge Hotel. Image taken August 2023
This Grade II listed building was originally the Sunderland home of the Lambton family in the 1790’s. When the Wearmouth Bridge was completed in 1796 it was converted into a coaching inn and renamed The Bridge Hotel. After the landlord was murdered in 1998 the pub didn’t reopen. It is now called Lambton House,
During our photography session we met who turned out to be the owner who announced he would be applying for planning permission from the City Council to turn the ground floor into a pub again. The planning application succeeded and was approved on October.
This shows the external tiling on one side, there is more on the front of the building. Image taken August 2023
There is no date yet for the reopening but this will be reported in the Branch Magazine CAMRA Angle. The pub was Grade II listed in 1975. More information can be found here :-
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1208524
Ken Paul