Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956NE WEST SUNNISIDE
920-1/20/242 (South side)
10/11/78 The Manor House
(Formerly Listed as:
FOYLE STREET
(East side)
No.4
The Manor House)

GV II

Includes: No.5 The Manor House (part) FOYLE STREET.
House, now offices and showrooms, in two builds with early C20
alterations. c1830, possibly incorporating an earlier building
on the same site. Brickwork of varying colour with painted
ashlar dressings and ashlar parapet coping; Welsh slate roof
to right part, left part roof not visible.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3:3 windows to West Sunniside; 2
storeys:2 storeys and basement, 2:3 windows to Foyle Street.
2-storey, 3-window lower building facing N up West Sunniside
has central 6-panel door and radial overlight in panelled
reveals under open pediment on Tuscan attached columns. These
have high panelled plinths and this doorcase has possible been
brought from another building. Flanking corniced tripartite
bow windows and 3 first-floor windows with wedge stone lintels
and projecting stone sills have glazing bars, those on first
floor in renewed sashes, below coped parapet. Building at
right has central prostyle fluted Greek Doric porch with
triglyph frieze, with `Manor House' painted on entablature; at
right, a corniced tripartite bow window; at left and on first
floor, wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to
sashes with glazing bars. Hipped roof with truncated ridge
chimney.
Right return to Foyle Street has similar sashes in first two
bays; next 3 windows are No.5, part of terrace and adjoining
Nos 6-12 (qv). This has steps up to 8-panelled door at right
in doorcase of pilasters and entablature, and plain sashes
with wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills.
Information from occupier: party walls between the Manor House
and No.5 Foyle Street have been broken through to form one
property.
Renewed dwarf walls and cast-iron railings along Foyle Street
frontage.

Listing NGR: NZ3998356927

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580021

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version