Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ4057 HIGH STREET WEST
920-1/12/106 (North side)
20/01/75 No.145
The Bridge Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET WEST
(North side)
No.145)

GV II

Includes: Nos.24 AND 25 The Bridge Hotel (part) SUNDERLAND
STREET.
Public house. c1820 front range with ground floor refronted
late C19. Faience ground floor; brick with painted ashlar and
stucco dressings; felted slate roof with brick and rendered
chimneys.
4 storeys, 2x5 windows with round corner bay; rear left return
2 storeys, 4 windows. Main 4-storey block has canted corner
entrance with coloured patterned tiles in tall pilasters
flanking renewed door under blind semicircular overlight; key
to blind roundel in stone tympanum between lion-mask brackets
of segmental pediment. Faience ground floor, rusticated above
high plinth, has panels of patterned tiles in plinth and
between windows. Sill string to fixed lights with glazing bars
and voussoirs. Upper floors have cornice on second floor;
sashes with glazing bars and projecting stone sills, except on
second floor, and painted projecting stone lintels. Top window
blind in rounded corner which has large Roman capitals BRIDGE
HOTEL attached to brickwork. Top cornice. Low pitched hipped
roof has raised section over rear entrance bay, and end
chimneys.
5-window left return in similar style except third floor band
instead of second floor cornice, and left bay blind above door
in elliptical-headed plain reveals under scroll-bracketed
hood. 2-storey left extension of left return continues with
one faience bay at right on ground floor, and at left a
pilastered shop front with bracketed fascia. First floor has 4
sashes in plain reveals with lintel band and projecting stone
sills; high coped parapet.

Listing NGR: NZ4005457241

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503594

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6