Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956SE BURDON ROAD
920-1/22/22 (East side (off))

GV II
(Formerly Listed as Bede Tower at Sunderland Polytechnic)

Villa, in use as polytechnic building at time of listing. 1851. By J and B
Green for AJ Moore, Mayor of Sunderland. Ashlar with graduated
grey slate roof. Italianate style.
2 storeys; 5-stage tower and 3 windows; right return garden
front 5 windows. N elevation: tower has plinth, steps up to
rusticated porch with impost string to open round-headed arch
and smaller round-headed open light on right return;
4-panelled door and semicircular overlight in roll-moulded
surround; first floor string with pierced balustrade to
balcony on big moulded brackets in front of keyed round-headed
window with impost blocks; narrow window on right return;
projecting quoins and floor strings to upper stages with
paired lights on third, single on fourth and triple stepped
lights on fifth below prominent modillioned eaves cornice with
acroteria; low pitched pyramidal roof. Gabled bay set back at
right has prominent quoins above plinth and similar jambs to
tripartite ground floor sashes with flat stone lintel and
stone mullions; small inserted light at left; first floor
string continuing from tower; first floor blank below impost
string continuing from tower second stage as sill band to 3
wide lights with flat stone lintels; prominent eaves on paired
curved brackets.
Right return garden front has projecting jambs and rusticated
voussoirs to ground-floor windows, and impost string below
architraves of keyed first-floor windows, all 4-pane sashes,
the 2nd-4th in a canted bay with hipped roof on gabled
projction; paired eaves brackets. Roof has corniced panelled
ridge chimneys.
Sports Hall added to rear.
(Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People:
Sunderland: 1988-: 61; Buildings of England: Pevsner revised
Williamson: County Durham: Harmondsworth: 1983-: 461).

Listing NGR: NZ3982556211

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568770

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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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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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)