Description

NZ3956SE
920-1/22/21
10/11/78

SUNDERLAND
BURDON ROAD (West side)
(Consecutive)
Nos 3-7 (cons) Douro Terrace incl. Douro House (No.7) with steps and railings

(Formerly Listed as: BURDON ROAD (West side) Douro Terrace (Nos. 3-7 consec.))

GV II

Terrace of houses, most now offices, with steps and railings in front. c1854.
By GA Middlemiss. For RJ Moore. Garden wall bond brick (5 and
1) with painted ashlar basement and ashlar and stucco
dressings; Welsh slate roof except for synthetic slates in
imitation of Welsh slate on No.4 and 5 houses, each basement
and 2 storeys, most 3 windows, No.3 with 2 windows. No.7 has 3
windows on left return. Basement has banded rustication. Nos
3, 4 and 5 have doors at left in heavy Doric doorcases with
engaged fluted columns supporting entablatures with triglyph
frieze, and bow windows at right through basement and ground
floor. First-floor sashes have sill band and horizontal
glazing bars under wedge-shaped stuccoed lintels. No.6 has
ground floor altered with windows inserted under lintels of
end-on headers. No.7 has later square bay on ground floor, and
first-floor sashes with vertical glazing bars, architraves and
cornices. Eaves frieze and cornice, dentilled to No.6, below
low pitched roof with ridge chimneys. Gabled dormers inserted
in Nos 3 and 4, the latter with four round-arched lights. Left
return of No.7 has ground floor continuing from basement of
main terrace, with central Tuscan porch with keyed arches,
tripartite square and canted bay windows, and 2 segment headed
dormers. Bull-nosed steps to Nos 3 and 5, renewed to No.4,
with cast-iron balustrades to Nos 3 and 4.
(Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River Town and People:
Sunderland: 1988-: 60-61; Buildings of England: Pevsner;
revised Williamson: County Durham: Harmondsworth: 1983-: 460).

Listing NGR: NZ3974156263

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568760

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)