Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956SE PARK PLACE WEST
920-1/22/167 (West side)
Nos.1-24 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of 24 houses. 1850-1854. Garden wall bond brick with
painted ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof with brick
chimneys.
2 storeys, some with basements. 3 windows each house, but some
houses wider. Groups step down the hill. Nos 1-5 at right are
highest and have panelled doors of Sunderland type, folding
back to form reveals of inner doors and overlights in
doorcases of large fluted Ionic pilasters with entablatures,
but surround removed from No.5. Similar doors with Tuscan
pilaster and entablature surrounds to other houses, Nos 12, 13
and 21 central with flanking canted bay windows, single canted
bay ground-floor windows to other houses, with pilasters or
architraves, rising from basement canted bays in some. First
floor has bracketed cornices and projecting stone sills to
sash in plain reveals. Most windows have horizontal glazing
bars, some 4-pane sashes. Renewed glazing includes mullioned
and transomed casements to Nos 2 and 3, and pivoting lights.
Roman lettering to incised street name plaque at right. Roof,
hipped at right, has transverse ridge and right end chimneys.
Some dormers canted bays with slate-hung sides and hipped
roofs, some gabled, some round-headed. C20 or altered dormer
to No.2. Right return to Park Road has 2 windows, the left
blind, and one canted bay on ground floor; wide canted dormer
in roof.
(Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People:
Sunderland: 1988-: 61; Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland
1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 14).

Listing NGR: NZ3992556255

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504562

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