Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ4057 CHURCH STREET EAST
920-1/12/43 (East side)
08/05/50 No.10

GV II*

House, now workshop and storage. Early C18; said to have been
built in 1710 for John Freeman. Late C18-early C19
alterations. Double pile. Flemish bond brick with ashlar
dressings; dark slate roof with brick chimneys.
3 storeys and basement, 5 windows. Angle pilasters, floor
strings (second rests on keystones), ground-floor band. Sashes
with fine glazing bars, some renewed, under finely rubbed flat
brick arches with keystones and stone sills to which
projecting stone has been added. Some basement windows blind;
some blocked at time of survey. Steps up to recessed flushed
central door; lost doorcase. Two steeply pitched
parallel-ridge roofs with end chimneys. At rear, 2 first-floor
sashes with broad glazing bars and round-arched central stair
window.
INTERIOR: ground floor central passage. Architraves to doors,
the right with upper part removed. Keyed arch on pilasters to
stair in rear range. Before stair another arch at left to
spine passage, walls removed. Entrance hall and stair have
ramped dado rail. Dog-leg stair with winders. Shallow steps
have block tread-ends, stick balusters and mahogany handrail
of narrow, smooth early-C19 moulding but ramped to echo dado.
First floor landing with wide keyed arches to either side and
to lobby for rooms at front; front right room chimney-piece
with pilasters and cornice; rear left first has plain stone
surround and early-C18 cast-iron grate, bars removed;
architraves to early-mid C18 sashes with ovolo-moulded broad
glazing bars. Stair to second floor from lobby. Rear room has
keyhole-shaped cast-iron grate, bars missing.

Listing NGR: NZ4050357307

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547113

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)