Sulgrave

HER Number

9726

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sulgrave

Place

Sulgrave

Map Sheet

NZ35NW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Settlement

Site Type: Specific

Housing Estate

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Edith Avenue flats were designed by Napper, Errington, Collerton, Barnett & Allott in 1961-8. The scheme was based on Lillington Gardens in Vauxhall, London which had won design awards. Three-to-five storey brick and concrete blocks arranged around formal concrete spaces were added. Between 1969 and 1971 303 small terraced flat-roofed houses were built east of Sulgrave Road. In 1981 Sunderland Council refurbished the Edith Avenue flats which had become vandalised and half-empty.

Easting

431620

Northing

557890

Grid Reference

NZ431620557890

Sources

N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 492-3