River Wear Commissioners
Building
(Formerly St Thomas Street Business Centre)
4 St Thomas Street, Sunderland SR1 1NW
An office building with a fascinating past and huge historical importance to the city.
The River Wear Commissioners was originally established in 1717 to convert the harbour and lower river and improve navigation to suit the needs of the developing coal trade.
The Wear Commissioners Building, built in 1907 as their head office, is a superb grade two listed period building in a high profile position in the city centre. As Sunderland’s finest Edwardian building and constructed from Scottish red granite and Durham sandstone, with no fewer than five separate varieties of marble and Cuban mahogany, it is an impressive and prestigious office location.
Currently the building provides 26 units from 110 sq ft to 350 sq ft. total area 10,099 sq ft (including 11 John Street). It also offers storage units.
As well as superb office space, its magnificent Board Room is available for business meetings, seminars, networking events plus weddings, receptions, family gatherings and larger celebrations in distinctive, truly memorable surroundings.
MEET ONE OF OUR BUSINESSES
The Perfect Match, Wear Commissioners Building
The Perfect Match started life producing matches for high-end hotels, restaurants and retailers and diversified into items such as coasters and napkins in order to offset the effects of the smoking ban. Today, many of the matches it supplies are gift items, such as 1ft long matches used for candle-lighting.
The company, which has been running since 2000, has supplied matches to the Royal Family for seven years and is applying for a Royal Warrant.
Its other high-profile customers include Harrods, Hilton Hotels, The Ritz, The Dorchester and restaurants run by celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver, Gary Rhodes and Gordon Ramsey. Perfect Match products, which are manufactured in the UK, India and Thailand, are found on BA and Virgin flights too.
The Perfect Match employs four people in Sunderland and has plans to grow. It has just recorded its best ever year and is on course to beat that in the year ahead.
Contact Our Business Centre Manager
Allan Davis
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0191 5660900
Knight Frank are our Managing Agents for our commercial, industrial and residential tenants, ensuring that our properties are not only suitable for today’s complex working environments but also attract and support new businesses to the benefit of everyone in Sunderland.
