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Latitude: 54.8969 / 54°53'48"N
Longitude: -1.381 / 1°22'51"W
OS Eastings: 439799
OS Northings: 555976
OS Grid: NZ397559
Mapcode National: GBR VCV.D4
Mapcode Global: WHD5C.R5LR
Plus Code: 9C6WVJW9+QJ
Entry Name: West Hendon House
Listing Date: 10 November 1978
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1279869
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391577
ID on this website: 101279869
Location: Humbledon View, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR2
County: Sunderland
Electoral Ward/Division: St Michael's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Sunderland
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Bishopwearmouth St Nicholas
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SUNDERLAND
NZ3955 RYHOPE ROAD
920-1/16/199 (West side)
10/11/78 West Hendon House
GV II
House, now a home for the elderly. c1830,incorporating C18
house, with late C19/early C20 additions in similar style.
Garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with tooled ashlar
dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof; earlier house now
rear wing is rendered.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 x 9 windows, with additions to left.
Angle pilasters to main front, left tower addition and
extension, and canted bays on right return. Original 3-window
front has central half-glazed 4-panelled door and overlight in
prostyle wood porch with square columns. Wedge stone lintels
and projecting stone sills to sash windows, some with glazing
bars; deep eaves on paired scroll brackets, probably added
later. Right return garden front has central and right parts
added: glazed wooden porch flanked by wide canted bays with
hipped roofs. Rear elevation shows Venetian stair window in
main building; 2-storey, 3-window rendered earlier house, now
kitchen wing, has sashes with glazing bars in broad boxes.
INTERIOR shows Ionic screen in entrance hall; doors to right
have architraves with paterae.
Listing NGR: NZ3979955976
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