These 3 storey 17th century houses, with a late-19th century shop front added, are built of brick with ashlar dressings and quoins, and a Welsh slate roof. The right return to Union Lane has a stone street-name plaque. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Houses. C1780 with late -19th century shop front added. Brick with ashlar dressings and quoins; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 2 windows. Tooled ashlar quoins to renewed ground - floor shop front with two doors. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to 4 - pane sash windows. Right return to Union Lane has stone street - name plaque; 3 storeys, 4 windows. Doors at left and under cambered brick arch at left of third bay; flat stone lintels, at left with glazing bars and the second 4 - paned; renewed sashes at right and blocked ground - floor opening with cambered brick arch. Rear part derelict at time of survey.
Site Name
49 and 50 High Street East
Site Type: Specific
House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4793
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4793 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/12/98
YEAR1
2001
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
440250
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
NMRNUMBER
NZ 45 NW 98
Northing
557350
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Sunderland
Description
This 4 storey 18th century bonded warehouse is built of rubble stone (on the north) and brick (on the south), with a Welsh slate roof. It is one of only 2 warehouses surviving in what was formerly a densely occupied commercial quayside area. LISTED GRADE 2
SITEASS
Archaeological excavations took place adjacent to the building in 1994.
Site Type: Broad
Warehouse
SITEDESC
Bonded warehouse. 18th century. N build rubble stone, S build brick, with Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys. 4:5 bays. E elevation: 5 - bay stone part has central ground floor metal loading bay door recessed in rendered surround. Loading doors above blocked on first floor, boarded on upper floors under gabled boarded hoist opening with projecting pulley. Small segment headed openings have projecting sills and rubble heads, some blocked with bricks, some boarded and some with glazing bars. 4 - bay brick build at left has narrow loading doors in second bay, wider on ground floor under renewed lintel, segmental brick arches over others. Similar arches over small wood mullion 2 - light openings, some boarded, with projecting stone sills. Roof hipped at left and with stone coped gable on right return, over wide boarded loading doors on each floor and small hoist opening in larger brick - blocked opening in gable peak. One of only 2 warehouses surviving in what was formerly a densely occupied commercial quayside area.
Site Name
Low Street, Wylam Wharf Warehouse
Site Type: Specific
Bonded Warehouse
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4792
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4792 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special … Interest, 920-1/12/138; Griffiths, W.B., Tyne and Wear Museums, 1995, Wylam Wharf, Sunderland - Archaeological Assessment
YEAR1
2001
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
440220
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
NMRNUMBER
NZ 45 NW 102
Northing
557300
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Sunderland
Description
The Sunderland Exchange before Missions to Seamen, was built in 1812-1814 by George Cameron of Esk, to a design by [William] Stokoe of Newcastle. It is built in incised stucco in the Classical style and comprises 2 storeys. LISTED GRADE 2
SITEASS
Pevsner - stuccoed and plainly classical. Originally with a clock turret and with the arcade between the end pavilions open.
Site Type: Broad
Exchange
SITEDESC
Sunderland Exchange before Missions to Seamen. 1812 - 1814. By [William] Stokoe of Newcastle; builder George Cameron of Esk. Incised stucco; roof damaged by fire. Classical style. 2 storeys, 2:5:2 windows, the outer pairs projecting slightly under pediments. Round - headed doorways in right end bay of centre and recessed in end arches of ground floor arcade with impost string. First floor band below sashes with glazing bars, most glass broken at time of survey, in plain reveals. Simple top entablature with cornice rising to form pediments; blocking course abutting these and continuing outside them. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814 - 1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 8).
Site Name
197 High Street East, Sunderland Exchange
Site Type: Specific
Exchange
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4791
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4791 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/12/100
T. Corfe, 1983, The Buildings of Sunderland, 1814-1914, p 8
YEAR1
2001
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
440170
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
NMRNUMBER
NZ 45 NW 101
Northing
557340
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
This mid-19th century bonded warehouse of 2 storeys and 6 bays is built in garden wall bond brick with ashlar impost blocks, and has a coated Welsh slate roof. This is a rare survivor of the intensive warehousing formerly in this area. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Warehouse
SITEDESC
Bonded warehouse. Mid C19. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with ashlar impost blocks; coated Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 6 bays. In fourth bay double doors on ground floor and in loading bay above, under deep segmental brick arches on impost blocks, the lower doors with long band hinges, the upper recessed. On ground floor, to right of door, a segmental - headed opening with iron bars set in sloping sill, and at left and right, small square ventilator openings. On first floor, 5 small openings with deep segmental brick arches are filled with grids of flat iron bars. Corbelled eaves gutter, and 3 rainwater pipes recessed in brickwork. A rare survivor of the intensive warehousing formerly in this area.
Site Name
Low Street, Rose Line Bonded Warehouse
Site Type: Specific
Bonded Warehouse
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4790
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4790 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/12/137
YEAR1
2001
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
Crossref
4788
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
439860
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
558250
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Monkwearmouth
Description
This Early English style Parish church was built in 1847-1849 to a design by John Dobson. It is built in coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth coping, quoins and dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and finials, topped by a stone spire. The chancel has a vestry to the north, and the nave has a south aisle, south-west spire and south porch. Internally there are the original pews with shaped ends, a gothic pulpit, and a WW2 font of polished limestone with a fluted bowl on a slim pedestal. The stained glass includes possibly original mid-19th century glass in the east windows, with geometric bands, and some high-quality mid-20th century glass. Alexander Boddy, vicar from 1886 to 1922, was a founder of the pentecostal movement. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Parish church. 1847 - 1849. By John Dobson. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth coping, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and finials; stone spire. Chancel with N vestry; nave with S aisle, SW spire and S porch. Early English style. Buttresses, clasping at corners. EXTERIOR: lower chancel has quatrefoil in E gable over 3 lancets stepped below continuous dripmould; sill string which continues below 3 small lancets with dripmoulds on S elevation. N vestry has lancet in stepped external chimney on N gable. Lombard frieze to chancel and N nave elevation which has tall paired lancets with sill string and continuous dripmould. S aisle under continuous roof has S lancet, paired S lights, boarded door in moulded door in moulded arch of gabled porch. Square SW tower has octagonal short second and third stages, the third with shafted angles and lancet belfry openings, below short spire. Paired W lancets below large vesica, clasping NW buttress rises to square pinnacle with pyramid coping. 20th century church hall obscures part of lower W elevation with lancet alongside. INTERIOR: S arcade with hoodstring over chamfered pointed arches on octagonal moulded capitals of rounded piers; high chancel arch with dogtooth moulding in two orders; west organ gallery; roof on corbelled wall - posts, nave hanmmerbeam, chancel braced tiebeam with queen struts. Windows have flower - ball stopped dripmoulds. Steps up to chancel and sanctuary. Original pews with shaped ends; gothic pulpit; 1926 chancel panelling and clergy prayer - desk and seat; WWII font of polished limestone with fluted bowl on slim pedestal. Stained glass includes possibly original mid -19th century in E windows with geometric bands and some high - quality mid - 20th century glass in second pair from E in aisle, and first pair from E on N. Alexander Boddy, vicar from 1886 to 1922, was a founder of the pentecostal movement. Corfe T and Milburn G: Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland: 1984-: 13. In 2009 the parish rediscovered a World War One memorial board which it could not properly display. It was taken by Wearmouth Library {Durham DAC minutes 337/09}.
Site Name
Fulwell Road, Church of All Saints
Site Type: Specific
Parish Church
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4789
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4789 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/4/86; Corfe T and Milburn G: Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland: 1984-: 13
YEAR1
2001
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
Crossref
4789
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
439870
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
558290
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Monkwearmouth
Description
This 19th century, 2 storey Vicarage to the Church of All Saints was designed by John Dobson in 17th century style. It is built in garden wall bond brick with an ashlar plinth and painted ashlar dressings. It has a Welsh slate roof with ashlar gable copings and brick chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Clergy House
SITEDESC
Vicarage to Church of All Saints (qv). 1849. By John Dobson. C17 style. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with ashlar plinth and painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with ashlar gable copings and brick chimneys. Parallel roof ridges. 2 storeys, 3 windows. Central door with Tudor - headed panels in plain painted stone surround has label dripmould; similar drip moulds over flanking 3 - light stone mullion and transom windows and first - floor mullion windows of 3, 2 and 3 lights. Moulded plinth and first floor string. Roofs have ball finials to ashlar gable copings on moulded kneelers, and ridge and end brick chimneys with ashlar coping.
Site Name
Church of All Saints Vicarage
Site Type: Specific
Vicarage
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4788
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4788 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/4/87
YEAR1
2001
English, British
Class
Transport
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
439680
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557680
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Monkwearmouth
Description
This group of stables and offices, attached to No. 58 Barclay Street (HER ref. 4786) by a yard wall, dates to the early 19th century and has late 19th century and 20th century alterations. The rubble limestone building on Barclay Street has ashlar quoins, and a yard wall with ashlar coping and gate piers. The house at the rear of the yard is brick with painted ashlar dressings, a rendered ground floor and rubble rear elevation. There is a Welsh slate roof on the one-storey Barclay Street building and composition tile on the 3-storey rear house. The rear house has a wide segmental-arched vehicle entrance to the left, but its details are obscured by render. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Stable
SITEDESC
Stables and offices to No. 58 Barclay Street (qv), with yard wall attached linking it to No. 58. Early 19th century with late 19th century and 20th century alterations. Rubble limestone left building with ashlar quoins has yard wall with ashlar coping and gate piers. House at rear of yard is brick with painted ashlar dressings, rendered ground floor and rubble rear elevation. Welsh slate roof on building at left and composition tile on rear house. North elevation to Barclay Street: one - storey, one - bay rubble building with high wall attached, the building is now part of a garage with 20th century metal garage door; yard wall with 20th century sliding vehicle door. At right, adjacent to No. 58, a pair of tall ashlar gate piers with top bands and low pyramidal coping. Boarded gates. Hipped Welsh slate roof with grey ridge tiles runs back from left building. House at back of yard: 3 storeys, 4 windows, with wide segmental - arched vehicle entrance at left, details obscured by render. Renewed first - floor windows have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills, and blind panels above which were probably second floor windows. Rear elevation to Cross Rendlesham Street: rubble with eroded floor bands, continuous with bands of No. 58. Irregular fenestration; projecting stone sills to renewed windows.
Site Name
57 Barclay Street, and wall to north-west
Site Type: Specific
Stable
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4787
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4787 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/11/12
YEAR1
2001
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
439650
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557680
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Monkwearmouth
Description
Originally an 18th century house, later the Shore Inn, then in 1867 the vicarage to the Church of St. Peter. The main, 3-storey building is in Flemish bond brick with pained ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings, and rendered porch sides. The 2-storey left return of the main building is rubble-built. It has a Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Originally a house. 18th century. Later The Shore Inn 18th century. In 1867 vicarage to Church of St. Peter. Hotel at time of survey. Main building Flemish bond brick with pained ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings, and rendered porch sides; left return main building rubble; left additional bany render with brick dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 3 windows and left addition 2 storeys one window. Right return to North Bridge Street 2 storeys and basement, 5 windows. Rear 3 storeys and 4 windows. U - plan roof. North elevation to Barclay Street has central shallow porch with painted fluted Doric columns supporting plain entablature, sides blocked and rendered; entablature partly obscured by late 20th century signboard and sun canopy; internal steps up to renewed glazed door in surrounds with late 20th century ceramic tiles. Low plinth; ground, first floor and eaves bands; projecting painted quoins. Sashes with glazing bars have flat stone lintels, except second floor windows under eaves, and projecting stone sills; blind windows in third bay; window to left door lost glazing bars. Eaves cornice and blocking course. Hipped roof with truncated central ridge chimney. Right return to North Bridge Street with ashlar basement has 5 windows, all with plain cornices; all windows renewed. Rear elevation has low plinth, floor and eaves bands; door inserted at right; 2 wide ground floor windows, the left blind and the right tripartite with upper glazing bars; upper floors have 4 windows, the two at left blind, renewed casements on first floor and sashes with glazing bars on second floor.
Site Name
58 Barclay Street, Barclay Lodge
Site Type: Specific
House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4786
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4786 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/11/13
YEAR1
2001
English, British
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
439710
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557940
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Monkwearmouth
Description
The Wheatsheaf Hotel public house, by S Ordnance Survey mapwald and Son, was built in 1897–1898 for Bell and Taylor. It is built in sandstone ashlar with a granite plinth and door architraves, and has a roof of graduated slates with ashlar chimneys. It is built in the Classical style to a roughly triangular plan, the west side rounded. It is 3 storeyshigh; the upper floors having bays defined by rusticated pilasters with Ionic capitals supporting big dentilled entablature with WHEAT SHEAF HOTEL incised on a frieze. This is an important building at the juction of 6 roads. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Eating and Drinking Establishment
SITEDESC
The Wheatsheaf Hotel public house. 1897 - 1898. By S Oswald and Son. For Bell and Taylor. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth and door architraves; roof of graduated slates with ashlar chimneys. Roughly triangular plan, the W side rounded; classical style. 3 storeys; 4 windows to Roker Avenue, 6 on rounded corner, one wider on Thomas Street North. Rusticated ground floor has doors in 2nd and 6th bays of curved section and in 3rd bay on Roker Avenue; these are 6 - panelled, with plain overlights, in granite architraves with scroll brackets supporting segmental pediment hoods. Ground - floor windows are fixed lights with some opening transom lights, and rusticated voussoirs with triple keys rising through frieze to cornice of ground - floor entablature. Upper floors have bays defined by rusticated pilasters with Ionic capitals supporting big dentilled entablature with WHEAT SHEAF HOTEL incised on frieze in well - cut letters. Sash windows have upper glazing bars, in architraves, those on first floor corniced, with ogee pediments to those above doors and in bay between doors on curve; blind bays on second floor above doors in curve have low - relief carved wheatsheaf. Roof has curved hip over curved end; 3 tall corniced ashlar chimneys. An important building at the junction of 6 roads. (Pearson LF: The Northumbrian Pub: an architectural history: Warkworth: 1989-: 98-99).
Site Name
207 Roker Avenue, Wheatsheaf Hotel
Site Type: Specific
Public House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4785
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4785 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/11/178
L.F. Pearson, 1989, The Northumbrian Pub: an architectural history, p 98-99
YEAR1
2001
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
439610
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557890
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Monkwearmouth
Description
This 2 storey, 18th century house is in English garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with brick chimney. This is a rare unaltered survivor of early 19th century Monkwearmouth in an area much redeveloped. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
House. 18th century. English garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with painted ashlar dressings; right return rendered; Welsh slate roof with brick chimney. 2 storeys, 2 windows. 4 - panelled door and blocked segmental overlight at right under segmental brick arch. Projecting stone lintels to recessed sashes with fine glazing bars, the lower with flat stone lintels and the upper with thin lintels possibly of painted wood. Eaves gutter brackets, gutter lost. A rare unaltered survivor of early 19th century Monkwearmouth in an area much redeveloped.
Site Name
6 Back North Bridge Street
Site Type: Specific
Detached House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4784
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4784 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/11/11