Listing Text

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956NE JOHN STREET
920-1/20/128 (East side)
10/11/78 Nos.20-23 (Consecutive)
with steps and railings attached
(Formerly Listed as:
JOHN STREET
(East side)
Nos.20-23 (Consecutive))

GV II

4 houses, part of a terrace, with steps, dwarf walls and
railings attached. c1840. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one)
with much tuck pointing; painted ashlar basements and
dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys.
EXTERIOR: each 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Steps up
(renewed to No.23) to doors at right of each: No.20 a
6-panelled door and overlight with petal-shaped glazing bars
in round-headed panelled reveals with open dentilled pediment
on attached Tuscan columns; No.21 with Tuscan pilasters and
plain entablature to 10-panel double door folding back to form
panelled reveals; No.22 with c1900 8-panelled door and
pedimented surround; No.23 with double 3-panel doors in late
C19 doorcase of architrave with hood on big console brackets.
4-pane sashes, probably original, and plain sashes to No.23
have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills, those on
ground floor with panelled ashlar aprons; No.23 has
ground-floor shop window inserted. Eaves gutter cornices. Roof
has gabled dormer to No.20, Sunderland-type later C19 canted
bay dormer with hipped roof to No.22, and two flat-topped C20
dormers to No.23. Step balustrades and area railings mostly
cast-iron with elaborate heads. Transverse-ridge chimneys.

Listing NGR: NZ3985956894