Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3857 HYLTON ROAD
920-1/10/124 (North side)
02/02/94 No.150
Mountain Daisy Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
HYLTON ROAD
(North side)
No.150
Mountain Daisy)

II*

Public house. Dated 1901. By W and TR Milburn. Brick with
black granite plinth, red granite bar front pilasters, and
sandstone ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with lead dome,
stone gable copings and brick chimneys. L-plan, with square
tower at left on return to Cromwell Street. Modified Queen
Anne style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 6x5 windows. Bar front, along whole south
elevation to Hylton Road and 3 bays of left return, has high
dark granite plinth, recessed in Scotia moulding to wide
windows; red granite pilasters and stone imposts suppport
multi-keyed stone arches, round with architraves over doors
one bay from each end and elliptical with raised centres over
wide windows flanking doors. Shaped aprons to first floor sill
string of sashes, the inner 4 paired under gables, with upper
glazing bars and flat brick arches with moulded long triple
stone keys; second floor string; smaller sashes on second
floor have sill and impost strings, the left with segmental
head in aedicule which is part of wide pilaster strip rising
through ashlar bands of tower to eaves roundel under segmental
head and ball finial. Similar aedicule and finial to right end
window. Shaped gables over paired intermediate windows with
central pilasters; slit lights in raised segmental pediments;
ball finials. Steeply pitched roof has tall ashlar corniced
end and mid-slope chimneys; convex square dome over corner
tower.
Left return has similar treatment with 2 doors, 3 varied
gables, and blind bay, rising as chimney stack with
sunflower/daisy motif in first floor panel, to right of second
window; second bay has 3-light windows below second floor
oriel.
INTERIOR: shows front bar altered but halls, doors and other
rooms little changed. Halls have dado, Art Nouveau doors and
fittings, closed string stair with moulded square balusters,
top gallery, big panelled newel and grip handrails. Rear left
sitting room has fully tiled walls and fittings which include
painted tile pictures of Durham Cathedral, Newcastle High
Level Bridge, Monkwearmouth Railway Bridge, Finchale Priory,
Marsden Rock, Bamburgh and Cragside, signed `Craven, Dunhill &
Co. Ltd. Jackfield' except for omission of `Ltd. Jackfield'
from 2 and 5; dado with frieze, cornice, quadrant corner bar,
all rich colours and patterns; and stucco modillion ceiling
cornice to pressed paper ceiling. Painted glass window panels
set above renewed bench seats show pseudo C17 inn scenes of
eating and drinking. Landing window has similar picture and
rhyming toast in local dialect. Upper rooms inspected have Art
Nouveau bar fittings and chimney-pieces; large room above has
pilasters and coved ceiling with scroll brackets.

Listing NGR: NZ3835457033

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547129

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)