5 - 12 Foyle Street
5 - 12 Foyle Street
HER Number
4727
District
Sunderland
Site Name
5 - 12 Foyle Street
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Terrace
Site Type: Specific
Terrace
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Terrace of 8 houses; No. 5 at left is now part of the Manor House, West Sunniside (qv). 1840. Garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Each house 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Most have steps up to panelled doors which fold back to form reveals of doorcases of Tuscan pilasters, some with palmette and anthemion frieze. No door to Nos. 11 and 12. Sashes, some renewed, have vertical glazing bars. Similar basement windows. Roofs have transverse - ridge end brick chimneys. Renewed dwarf walls and cast - iron railings. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
439980
Northing
556910
Grid Reference
NZ439980556910
Sources
<< HER 4727 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/20/77; Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates