Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3957SE WEST SUNNISIDE
920-1/18/238 (West side)
Central Buildings

GV II

Offices. c1900. Ashlar; Welsh slate roof with stone gable
coping. 3 storeys and basement, 9 windows. Double doors, each
6-panelled, and semicircular overlight below 3rd and 4th
windows in doorcase of keyed architrave in frame of fluted
pilasters and scrolled pediment rising between first-floor
windows. Secondary 6-panelled door in first bay with block
rustication to lower part of Tuscan engaged columns supporting
entablature with pulvinated frieze and segmental pediment.
Plain sashes, except for wide window in two right end
ground-floor bays, in plain reveals with sill strings; triple
keystones on ground floor, top floor with enablature with
CENTRAL BUILDINGS incised in frieze below prominent eaves
gutter cornice; shaped gable over 3 right bays contains paired
windows between pilasters with monogram in pedimented
aedicule; balustrade from gable to left end.

Listing NGR: NZ3989857134

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580047

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