Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ4057 HIGH STREET WEST
920-1/12/108 (South side)
10/11/78 No.176
(Formerly Listed as:
VILLIERS STREET
(East side)
No.58)
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET WEST
(South side)
No.176)

GV II

Includes: No.58 VILLIERS STREET.
2 houses with later shop. Late C18 building on High Street
West; early C19 house on Villiers Street; eaves altered and
shop front added mid C19. High Street West building Flemish
bond brick, Villiers Street building garden wall bond brick (5
and one), with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with
brick chimneys.
3 storeys, 3 windows and 3:2 in right return. Projecting
ground-floor shop addition in tall Corinthian Order has steps
up to central boarded door in round-headed opening with
pilasters, voussoirs and projecting key. Flanking display
windows framed by attached columns; within these, paired
round-headed lights have pilasters and moulded keyed
architraves. Upper floors have wedge stone lintels and
projecting stone sills to first floor sashes with glazing bars
and smaller second floor casements. Deep eaves on entablature
with second gutter cornice added on paired brackets. Roof
hipped at corner with transverse ridge chimneys. Right return
to Villiers Street has first build with 3 windows, blind in
first bay and sashes with glazing bars in others as on first
floor at front; No.58 Villiers Street, at right, has wood
architrave to altered door recess under brick blocking and
wedge stone lintel, containing steps up to renewed door and
overlight; windows, all with glazing bars, similar to those of
first build except that those on first and second floors are
the same size. Eaves entablature and cornices continue from
first build. Rear gable wall has single central first-floor
sash, two of different sizes above, and two in gable peak, all
with glazing bars and lintels and sills as on street fronts
but unpainted.

Listing NGR: NZ4006657201

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503608

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