Swing - bridge and ashlar walls at east side of Hudson Dock, at entrance from former sea lock to former south outlet. Dated 1880 on plaque which also names Henry H Wake, C.E., engineer; River Wear Commission and Andrew Handyside & Co. Ltd., Contractors and, Derby and London. Riveted steel girder construction, Ashlar walls. Asymmetrical hog - back arch, pivoting on north lock wall, the shorter arm to the land and the longer swinging to bridge the lock. Central strut from arch to deck has riveted reinforcing plate at foot and diagonal struts and diagonal braces are repeated along the whole length. Originally operated by hydraulic machinery made WG Armstrong & Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne. Founder's plate on inner face of west side lattice metal balustrades have elliptical - headed tubular handrails. Bridge pivots on one ashlar wall to close against the opposite wall.

Machinery pit, (to the west of the swing - bridge at the east side of Hudson Dock), for lock gates No. 4. 1880. By Henry W Wake. For River Wear Commission. Ashlar - lined pit; cast - iron and wrought - iron wheels, chains, cogs. A long rectangular pit at right angles to and immediately west of the E swing - bridge (qv) contains the former lock gates chains and cog wheels. When the bridge swings open the long arm rests parallel to this pit. Cast - iron round plate formerly covering lock gate hinge, now in dock workshop, low relief inscription: RIVER WEAR COMMISSION/ NO. 4 LOCK GATES/ 1880/ H.W.WAKE. C.E./ ENGINEER.

Shown on O.S. as Central Police Station. Magistrates courts. 1905. By W and TR Milburn, and Wills and Anderson; JW White contractor. Opened 1907. Ashlar with roof of graduated slates now coated. Free Baroque style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and tower; 1:3:5:1:1 windows, the windows, the 3 - bay section projecting under pediment, the right end bay an open arch with low relief PUBLIC in panel above. Tower has rusticated Ionic pilasters with open pediment to double doors and overlight; tall second stag, with balcony window set in door pediment and 2 small slits below swags and broken pediment on top panel containing clock. Lantern above has corner clusters of square columns with prominent cornice to each cluster supporting ogee scrolls and ball finial. 5 - bay section has similar doors and overlights in central and right bays in rusticated surrounds and voussoirs. All overlights have glazing bars, as have all ground - floor windows which are in similar rusticated surrounds, with aprons to plinth suspended from moulded sills. First floor string supports projecting centres of aprons to upper windows of 5 - bay section, with cartouches between windows; all first - floor windows with hollow chamfered recessed surrounds and transoms, the wider ones mullioned. 3 - bay pedimented projection has narrow windows flanking centre with recessed upper storey, the recess rising behind the cornice into the pediment with a semicircular light. Stepped blocking course above pediment has swagged centre panels. Balustraded roof parapet except to pediment and tower; ridge chimneys. Right return has 2 storeys, 12 windows (2:3:3:4) in similar style to the front, the central 3 a projecting entrance with a tall attic storey containing 2 keyed oeil - de - boeuf, swags and drops of leaves. Mansard roof on this wing has dormer casements with glazing bars, and panelled ridge chimneys. Rear has high Diocletian windows. INTERIOR: shows much appropriate detail, iron stair balustrade with wrought flower and leaf decoration, with wide grip handrail. Brass plaque giving building dates signed R Youll SC.

On 27 June 1883 an Act of Parliament was passed for the construction of Roker Pier. The two existing piers at the harbour mouth were proving inadequate as they were too short to protect the docks and shelter ships. Two new curving piers were proposed by River Wear Commission engineer Henry Hay Wake. On 14 September 1885 the foundation stone was laid by Sir James Laing, Chairman of the River Wear Commission. This is located on the north facing wall of the pier. The pier took 18 years to build and cost £290,000. Construction began with the removal of sand from the bedrock using a specially constructed steel vessel, the Sandrail, which acted as a huge suction pump. Bags of concrete were then lowered into place on the bedrock. These were moved into place by a barge patented by Wake, called 'Concrete'. The concrete reacted with the seawater to solidify forming a solid foundation. The foundations were levelled off with concrete and granite rubble. The superstructure above this was built of red Aberdeen granite faced concrete blocks, which had been constructed in a blockyard on the shore, by pouring concrete into huge wooden moulds lined with the granite. The coping is grey granite. The blocks were transported by engine along the pier to their location. The narrow gauge wagon rails can still be seen. At the shore end, the tramway was crossed by a footbridge, long removed. The blocks were lifted into place by a 120 ton radial jib crane, designed and patented by Wake. The crane was set on a wooden goliath (travelling gantry cradle) and was moved by two 20 HP gas engines. The cast iron gas pipes can be seen in the pier tunnel. When built, the radial crane was the largest in the world. The blocks were laid in Flemish bond and the joints in-filled with Portland cement. Any exposed vertical joints were caulked with rope. A tunnel ran through the centre of the pier to carry the gas and water pipes for the crane. The tunnel was later used by the keeper to reach the lighthouse in bad weather. The tunnel was lit by gas lamps. It was accessed down a flight of steps which were covered by a small hut. The pier was a 'triumph of enginneering'. Dignitaries' and investors' visits were commemorated with initialled stones. Five such stones can be clearly seen. In August 1892 the Marquis and Marchioness Londonderry visited the building site. A boat landing was named after them and is marked with a commemorative stone 'Londonderry Landing'. In 1899 Lord Londonderry began work on a new outer harbour at Seaham. This was also designed by Wake. Inside the tunnel there is stone to Enid H Wake, Henry's youngest daughter, dated 7.9.98. It probably commemorates a visit to the site in 1898. The lighthouse and pier were completed in 1903 and were opened on 23 September. Wake organised a dinner for the workmen at the Palatine Hotel on 25th September. In 1915 the pier was damaged by a storm. Many of the original railings have been removed, possibly during the war, and replaced with plain galvanised steel. Most of the gas lamps have been removed. Two remain at the shore end of the pier. In January 2012 a new set of steel gates designed by artist Fiona Heron were installed.

House. 1850. Ashlar; Welsh slate roof with ashlar - cornices brick chimney raised in brick. 2 storeys, 2 windows. Steps up to 6 - panelled door at left of Sunderland type, folding back to form reveals to inner door, in surround of pilasters and entablature. Canted bay window at right has flat roof on wood pilasters and cornice continous with ground floor cornice, and plain sashes; similar sashes on first floor with flat stone lintel and moulded stone sills on short brackets. Eaves band and cornice and painted wood gutter cornice. Roof has right end chimney which has been raised when adjacent higher house built.

Archway. Medieval, set in 19th century wall;19th century or 20th century screen. Stone, in brick wall; wrought - iron screen. Resited from outbuildings of Bishopwearmouth Rectory, demolished late C19. Chamfered pointed arch, keystone restored, with irregular projecting stones on E side, set in garden wall. Gothic - patterned screen fills opening. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland Town Centre Trail: Sunderland).

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'Phoenix Hall was constructed on part of the grounds of the Golden Lion Hotel to designs of local Lodge member John Bonner at a total cost of £600, financed by Lodge members, and was consecrated on 5 April 1785. Little is known about John Bonner's architectural practice, but Phoenix Hall demonstrates a clear knowledge of classical design and geometry. Bonner oversaw a number of craftsmen including a Mr Pears who undertook the carved work at a cost of £30, and John Donaldson, organ maker who constructed the organ for the gallery at a cost of 50 guineas. It is understood that Bonner himself undertook much of the commission for the wooden fixtures and fittings, while other furnishings such as the three main chairs were purchased from St John’s Lodge, Newcastle.
Phoenix Hall is now the earliest surviving masonic hall in Britain, and possibly further afield. Over time there have been a number of additions and alterations: these include the blocking and modifying of various windows and doors, the conversion of an attached building to a banqueting range in 1890, a rear extension in 1923, the removal of the west pent and the conversion of the east pent to a bar in 1923, the loss of the Past Master boards to the lodge room by mid-C20 over-painting, a late-C20 extension to the banqueting hall, several episodes of redecoration and the early C21 restoration of the south elevation.
Masonic Hall, 1784-5 by John Bonner; banqueting range converted from an attached building 1890-1894, and extended late C20; rear entrance hall range added in 1923.
MATERIALS: front temple range of slender brick in Flemish bond, with an ashlar plinth and dressings; the right return (east pent) is poorer quality brick laid in garden wall bond. The rear banqueting hall range is of limestone rubble with brick dressings with a breeze-block extension, rendered; the early-C20 entrance hall range is red brick. There is dark grey slate roof to the front and banqueting ranges, and purple slate to the right pent roof.
PLAN: a front temple range comprising a rectangular lodge room with attached east pent. A rectangular banqueting range is attached to the rear with a shorter, rectangular extension to the west side. An L-shaped rear extension is set in the angle between the lodge room and the banqueting range.
EXTERIOR:
FRONT TEMPLE RANGE: the principal elevation faces south beneath a hipped roof with two truncated rear chimney stacks and one truncated right end chimney; it was originally symmetrical with a central lodge room flanked to either side by a pent-roofed bay (the left pent now removed). The elevation is Palladian in style, with a central window set within a tall, shallow, round-headed recess with a plain stone head on impost blocks, and a bracketed stone pedimented aedicule. There is a replacement steel, masonic symbol within the tympanum of the arch. Flanking windows have plain stone surrounds supported on a plain sill band. All three windows have replacement six-over-six un-horned sash frames. There is a moulded stone eaves cornice and a re-built brick parapet. The lower right bay is set back slightly and has a pitched roof with a stone coping and a plain eaves band. A window and door opening are blocked, the former with a replaced stone lintel and projecting sill, and the latter with an original worn threshold and the bases of a former pediment. Set to the front is a low brick boundary wall with ashlar coping and modern metal fencing. The right return has a ground floor wall set back slightly from a thicker basement wall, itself sitting upon irregular stone walling. There is a wide blocked basement entrance with a blind and a blocked window above, and a later small window to either side; the remainder of the elevation has renewed brickwork and is blind. The left return is also blind.
REAR BANQUETING RANGE: a two-storey range with a pitched roof is attached to the north elevation of the east pent, extending across part of the north elevation of the lodge room, and rising above both. The east elevation has three tall first-floor segmental-headed windows with brick surrounds; remains of previous windows are visible to each end. There is a wide segmental-headed basement doorway, now blocked, and a plain inserted basement door and three small blocked windows. The north elevation is buttressed but otherwise blind. There is a late-C20 rectangular, lean-to extension to the west elevation, reached by concrete steps.
REAR ENTRANCE HALL RANGE: constructed against (and obscuring) the rear elevation of the front range is an L-shaped, two-storey, red-brick, flat-roofed extension with five bays to the north elevation and three bays to the west elevation; windows are a mixture of metal sash and casement frames with stone or concrete lintels. A recessed central entrance in the north wall has a moulded and lugged surround.
INTERIOR:
FRONT TEMPLE RANGE: the rectangular lodge room or temple is the centrepiece of the building, designed in a neoclassical style to emulate Solomon’s temple. The C20 floor has chequer-board laminate with a band of smaller tessellation. The ceiling has a central, gilded carved wood roundel representing the blazing sun, with a central circle with a blue background and seven stars and at the centre a large gilded G within a triangle representing the deity of the Great Architect of the Universe.
The walls are plaster panelled and have a chair rail, a moulded cornice, and six-panelled doors, but the centrepiece of each is treated differently. That to the east wall is designed to frame the Worshipful Master's throne and comprises a composition of cornices, arches and niches that breaks forward twice. The throne sits within a central niche with a smaller niche to each side, set between two engaged Doric columns supporting a round-headed arch. The columns represent the biblical bronze pillars Jachin and Boaz, that stood at the entrance to Solomon’s temple. A recessed arch within this arch has a sunburst with a central gilded rising sun resting on a simple entablature in the tympanum. The rising sun symbolises the start of a meeting. The outer niches contain seats with boarded curved backs. To either side of the centrepiece is a doorway with a moulded architrave. A similar but plainer composition adorns the west wall with doorways and a recessed arch springing from capitals. It contains the Senior Warden’s chair with a balustrade gallery above, that contains an organ of 1785, surmounted by a Phoenix. A gilded crescent moon on the balustrade symbolises the closing of a meeting, and is repeated in the broken pediment of the chair. The south wall has the simplest composition, breaking slightly forward with a similar round-headed arched recess, the arch springing from impost mouldings. The tympanum contains a similar sunburst to the east wall above the Junior Warden’s chair. The north wall has a pair of Adam-style chimney pieces with Doric entablatures, the lintels adorned with decorative foliage and a moulded vase. Mounted within three of the plaster panels are three early-C19 tracing boards representing the three degrees of masonry; the central board shows the pillars Jachin and Boaz at the entrance to Solomon’s temple, the very structure that the lodge room emulates.
The east pent is fitted out as a late-C20 bar, and there is a former stick baluster stair, (balusters mostly removed) with a handrail and a heavy, moulded newel post, that leads down to a basement. The latter opens into a large cellar beneath the lodge room, with visible, original timber floor beams and a buttressed north wall supporting the pair of fireplaces above, and a central blocked door.
REAR BANQUETING RANGE: the original part of the banqueting hall retains elements of its 1890s decorative scheme including a moulded cornice and plaster ceiling roses. Skirting boards and a dado rail continue into the late-C20 western extension. The north wall has a substantial, fireplace with a four-centred arch surround and a cast-iron fireback dated 1588, with the initials IFC and two anchors, fleur-de-lys and roses, flanked by vines. To either side of the fireplace there are tall, round-headed niches. The late-C20 western extension is plainly appointed. The basement is occupied by a large modern kitchen that obscures original fabric although the north wall is thought to house a large chimney breast.
REAR ENTRANCE HALL RANGE: an entrance lobby opens into a central hallway which has an early-C20 decorative scheme with moulded skirting boards, dado rail and an egg and dart moulded cornice. C20 panels of Past Masters are affixed to the wall. Doorways giving access to the main ground floor rooms have moulded, curvaceous architraves. A stick baluster stair with mahogany handrail gives access to the first floor former caretaker's accommodation: it now serves as offices and other functions including a robing room.'

House. Early 18th century. Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings; dark slate roof with brick chimneys. L - plan. 3 storeys and basement, 6 windows, blind in first bay at left. Steps inside brick round - arched opening at left to flushed door. Next two bays have flat - 20th century roller shutter inserted under wood beam; flat arches of gauged brick above beam. Central flushed door in altered surround. Right 2 bays ground floor have late 20th century brickwork inserted containing plain sash window with pseudo flat gauged brick arch and projecting stone sill. Basement in left bays runs out at centre. Sashes with glazing bars in wide box frames flush with brickwork. Floor strings. INTERIOR shows early19th century first floor alterations including architraves and chimney - pieces. Steeply pitched roof with brick chimneys.

House. Early 18th century; said to have been built in 1710 for John Freeman. Late 18th century - early19th century alterations. Double pile. Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings; dark slate roof with brick chimneys. 3 storeys and basement, 5 windows. Angle pilasters, floor strings (second rests on keystones), ground - floor band. Sashes with fine glazing bars, some renewed, under finely rubbed flat brick arches with keystones and stone sills to which projecting stone has been added. Some basement windows blind; some blocked at time of survey. Steps up to recessed flushed central door; lost doorcase. Two steeply pitched parallel - ridge roofs with end chimneys. At rear, 2 first - floor sashes with broad glazing bars and round - arched central stair window. INTERIOR: ground floor central passage. Architraves to doors, the right with upper part removed. Keyed arch on pilasters to stair in rear range. Before stair another arch at left to spine passage, walls removed. Entrance hall and stair have ramped dado rail. Dog - leg stair with winders. Shallow steps have block tread - ends, stick balusters and mahogany handrail of narrow, smooth early -19th century moulding but ramped to echo dado. First floor landing with wide keyed arches to either side and to lobby for rooms at front; front right room chimney - piece with pilasters and cornice; rear left first has plain stone surround and early - 18th century cast - iron grate, bars removed; architraves to early - mid 18th century sashes with ovolo - moulded broad glazing bars. Stair to second floor from lobby. Rear room has keyhole - shaped cast - iron grate, bars missing.

House. 1840 with later 19th century shop. Ashlar with pantiled roof and brick chimneys; left return late 20th century brick. 3 storeys, 2 windows. Shop has corrugated iron covering central window flanked by doors, the left also blocked with iron; stall risers replaced with white tile; pilasters support entablature with pulvinated frieze and long carved wood and stucco brackets to cornice, cresting lost. Upper floors have paired narrow sashes in lugged architraves, those on first floor with frieze and cornice, on second floor smaller and resting on wave - moulded sill string. Top entablature with modillioned cornice. Roof has ridge end chimneys.