Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3957SW SILKSWORTH ROW
920-1/17/203 (South side)
No.26
Livingstone's Public House

II

Formerly known as: Ship Isis SILKSWORTH ROW.
Public house. Dated 1885. Ashlar; roof of concrete tiles.
Italianate style. 2 storeys, 6 windows, the third wider.
Ground floor, rusticated above plinth, has renewed double
doors and plain overlight recessed between Tuscan shafts and
long moulded brackets in third bay. Semicircular panel above
has dentilled architrave, carved tympanum with date 1885, and
carved round finial with patera. Renewed glazing in ground
floor windows with impost string and shallow segmental heads;
paired reeded curved brackets flank door shaft brackets to
floor cornice which breaks forward to receive date panel and
flanking pedestals with urn finials. Arcaded first-floor
mullion and transom windows with raised blocked overlights
have recessed aprons to moulded sills, and pulvinated frieze
to imposts supporting raised round architrave heads with long
keys; window over door recessed in hollow reveals with
panelled sides and curved key. All first-floor keys prolonged
to ogee-moulded cornice of top entablature; pierced balustrade
to roof parapet with corniced dwarf piers, the outer with
raised ball finials.

Listing NGR: NZ3905357067

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512728

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)