Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956NE BURDON ROAD
920-1/20/23 (West side)
Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)
Burdon House

GV II

Shops and offices. 1916. For North Eastern Railway. Ashlar;
roof not visible; ashlar chimneys. 3 storeys, 10x3 windows.
Rusticated ground floor has pilasters framing door in 9th bay
under high overlight, in round-headed surround with hollow
reveals, and supporting shop entablature with fascia name
boards. Giant pilasters to upper floors rest on moulded
brackets and frame pairs of sashes, the lower in architraves,
the upper with keyed segmental-headed architraves on moulded
sills with plain rectangular aprons. Top entablature with
dentilled cornice supports balustraded roof parapet.
Low-pitched roof has corniced end ashlar chimneys. Right
return similar. Left return has central 3-light mullioned and
transomed windows flanked by 2-storey shallow bow tripartite
oriels.
(Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle:
1983-: 19; Sinclair NT: Railways of Sunderland: Newcastle upon
Tyne: 1986-: 22).

Listing NGR: NZ3976556778

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502232

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