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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580983

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)