Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956SE SAINT BEDE'S TERRACE
920-1/22/204 (West side)
10/11/78 Nos.1-16 (Consecutive)
with attached handrails
(Formerly Listed as:
ST BEDE'S TERRACE
Nos.1-16 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 16 houses. c1854. Layout by GA Middlemiss. For AJ
Moore. 2 storeys, most with basement; most 3 windows, 2 to Nos
1, 2, 3, 4 and 11. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with
painted ashlar dressings; rendered left return to Park Road;
Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Iron handrails, some
original, on steps up to doors of Nos 4-16. Doorcases at right
of each, except No.16 where entrance is in right return at S
end of terrace, have engaged fluted Corinthian columns and
dentilled entablature; doors are of Sunderland type, panelled
to fold back as reveals to inner doors and overlights. Canted
bay ground floor windows have panelled pilasters and
modillioned cornice; similar window on first floor of No.1.
Other upper windows to front, some 4-pane sashes, some
renewed, have bracketed projecting sills to lugged
architraves. Roof, on bracketed eaves gutter cornice, has some
gabled dormers, some of Sunderland type with canted bay
windows and hipped roofs, some with renewed glazing, and some
inserted roof lights; transverse ridge chimneys. Left return
to Park Road has wedge stone lintels and projecting stone
sills to 2 blind windows on each floor and one renewed window
at left on first floor; round-headed blind attic window in
gable peak has projecting stone sill. Right return of No.16
has central entrance flanked by canted bay windows; wedge
stone lintels and projecting stone sills to 2 left windows and
right blind window above; keyed round surrounds to heads and
projecting stone sills to 2 attic lights in gable peak.
(Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle:
1983-: 14).

Listing NGR: NZ3986556274

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502294

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