Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956SE PARK PLACE EAST 920-1/22/166 (East side) Nos.1-24 (Consecutive)

II

Terrace of 24 houses. 1850-80. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one), No.17 painted, with painted ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Each house 2 storeys, with basements to Nos 14-20, and 3 windows except No.1 at left which has 4 and is wider as is No.13; left return of No.1 has 3 windows to Park Road. Houses step down the hill in groups, Nos 6-10 set back slightly. Sunderland-type panelled doors, which fold back to form panelled reveals to inner doors and overlights, at left of Nos 1-12, most others at sides but at centre of Nos 1 and 13 with flanking canted bays. Doorcases have pilasters suporting dentilled entablature with modillion cornice; similar treatment to ground floor canted bay windows. Most sash windows have horizontal glazing bars, those on first floor in stone architraves with scroll bracketed cornices and projecting stone sills. Inscribed stone street name plaque on No.1 using Roman capitals. Roof, hipped at left, has transverse-ridge and left end chimneys. Canted bay dormers with slate-hung sides and hipped roof to Nos 1, 5, 14 and 20, some pedimented or arched dormers, and C20 or altered dormers to Nos 7, 8, 9, 17 and 18. Left return has wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to windows, blocked exceot for first floor left which has horizontal glazing bars; canted bay dormer with hipped roof. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 61; Corfe T: The Buildings of Sudnerland 1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 14).

Listing NGR: NZ3998956279

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