Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956SE PARK PLACE WEST 920-1/22/167 (West side) Nos.1-24 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of 24 houses. 1850-1854. Garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 2 storeys, some with basements. 3 windows each house, but some houses wider. Groups step down the hill. Nos 1-5 at right are highest and have panelled doors of Sunderland type, folding back to form reveals of inner doors and overlights in doorcases of large fluted Ionic pilasters with entablatures, but surround removed from No.5. Similar doors with Tuscan pilaster and entablature surrounds to other houses, Nos 12, 13 and 21 central with flanking canted bay windows, single canted bay ground-floor windows to other houses, with pilasters or architraves, rising from basement canted bays in some. First floor has bracketed cornices and projecting stone sills to sash in plain reveals. Most windows have horizontal glazing bars, some 4-pane sashes. Renewed glazing includes mullioned and transomed casements to Nos 2 and 3, and pivoting lights. Roman lettering to incised street name plaque at right. Roof, hipped at right, has transverse ridge and right end chimneys. Some dormers canted bays with slate-hung sides and hipped roofs, some gabled, some round-headed. C20 or altered dormer to No.2. Right return to Park Road has 2 windows, the left blind, and one canted bay on ground floor; wide canted dormer in roof. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 61; Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 14).

Listing NGR: NZ3992556255

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)