Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956NE JOHN STREET 920-1/20/132 (West side) 08/05/50 Nos.48-58 (Consecutive) with steps and railings attached (Formerly Listed as: JOHN STREET (West side) Nos.48-55, 56-58 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 11 houses, now offices, with steps, dwarf walls and railings attached. c1840. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one), most with tuck pointing, and painted ashlar basements and dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Stone steps and dwarf walls and cast and wrought-iron railings. EXTERIOR: each 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Basements have channelled rustication. End pairs of houses treated as pavilions, with giant pilasters and doors paired at centre; others have doors at right. Steps up to panelled doors of Sunderland type, folding back to form reveals of inner doors, most with round central panels. Doorcases of fluted Doric columns supporting entablature with palmette and anthemion frieze, except No.57 which has square Tuscan pilasters and No.58 which has lost doorcase. Wedge stone lintels and sill strings between corner pilasters to sash windows, some renewed and some with glazing bars. Hipped roof has transverse ridge chimneys and some added dormers, No.49 a Sunderland type with slate-hung sides, canted bay and hipped roof. No.48 has left return to Athenaeum Street with giant pilasters; 2 windows on each floor, the left ground floor window a canted bay, and sill strings between corner pilasters. Most steps up to doors have moulded steps and tread ends; balustrades have linking central rosettes and plain wrought handrails; railings mostly spear-headed, some renewed.

Listing NGR: NZ3981456981

External Links

• Wikidata Q26580983

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