Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3957SE HIGH STREET WEST 920-1/18/104 (North side) 10/11/78 Nos.110, 111 AND 112

GV II

Bank, now offices. 1876. By John Gibson. For the National Provincial Bank. Now the offices of the Northumbria Probation Service. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth; Welsh slate roof. Right return to Bedford Street. 3 storeys, 6x5 windows. Palazzo style. Rusticated masonry except for orders. Ground floor has round-headed openings; steps up to 4-panel door with overlight in keyed corniced architrave in left set-back bay and to double 6-panel door in right end bay under shell-carved head with jewelled key to architrave. Similar heads to ground floor windows. Ground floor entablature supports giant order: square end pilasters with fluted necking, the others elaborately carved Ionic attached columns, framing first-floor keyed sashes and moulded aprons to second-floor round-headed windows in enriched hollow reveals. Long jewelled brackets on entablature support top dentilled cornice. Low pitched hipped roof has corniced chimneys at rear and side.

Listing NGR: NZ3977957170

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