English, British
ADDITINF
Y
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
COMP2
Rachel Grahame
DAY1
25
DAY2
02
District
Sunderland
Easting
439870
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Built Over
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
9
MONTH2
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557220
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
This building was Grade II listed in October 1994 but was demolished within a year. It was removed from the National Heritage List in 2023. The listing description read:
'Salvation Army Citadel, now shop (Conticraft DIY). Dated 1891. Bright red brick with terracotta and ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. In style of a medieval fortress.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 1:2:7:2:1 windows. Wide central bay has full-width semicircular rubbed brick arch, with architrave, enclosing recessed paired double many-panelled doors with similar arched heads to overlights with radiating glazing bars. Terracotta tiles with low relief patterns fill soffit of large arch, with glazing bars to central roundel, impost string breaks forward and continues around angle pilasters of central gatehouse-like projection. Ashlar band to foot of pilasters and adjacent reveals of large arch; above, a corbel table supports 7 arcaded lights with glazing bars and corbelled round heads, and links gatehouse pilasters which have arched corbels to square top turrets with arrow-slit crosses in parapet. Above arcade a corbelled roof parapet has central painted ashlar panel with date 1891 incised in large well-cut figures. Corner bays have similar giant pilasters and lower corbelled turrets, without arrow slits, enclosing ground floor double panelled doors under keyed segmental arch and first-floor string to large blocked keyed window in panel. Eaves string below parapet with 3 slits under Lombard frieze linking turrets. Intermediate stair sections have high keyed blocked arches on ground floor, paired windows on 2 levels above with flat stone lintels and stone mullions, top corbelled parapet. Returns show similar detail to 2 windows of corner sections, and plainer walls beyond with glazing bars to metal-framed windows. Inserted loading doors.
INTERIOR: shows some stage and gallery structure and some C19 stucco ceiling detail.'
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
This building was Grade II listed in October 1994 but was demolished within a year. It was removed from the National Heritage List in 2023. The listing description read:
'Salvation Army Citadel, now shop (Conticraft DIY). Dated 1891. Bright red brick with terracotta and ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. In style of a medieval fortress.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 1:2:7:2:1 windows. Wide central bay has full-width semicircular rubbed brick arch, with architrave, enclosing recessed paired double many-panelled doors with similar arched heads to overlights with radiating glazing bars. Terracotta tiles with low relief patterns fill soffit of large arch, with glazing bars to central roundel, impost string breaks forward and continues around angle pilasters of central gatehouse-like projection. Ashlar band to foot of pilasters and adjacent reveals of large arch; above, a corbel table supports 7 arcaded lights with glazing bars and corbelled round heads, and links gatehouse pilasters which have arched corbels to square top turrets with arrow-slit crosses in parapet. Above arcade a corbelled roof parapet has central painted ashlar panel with date 1891 incised in large well-cut figures. Corner bays have similar giant pilasters and lower corbelled turrets, without arrow slits, enclosing ground floor double panelled doors under keyed segmental arch and first-floor string to large blocked keyed window in panel. Eaves string below parapet with 3 slits under Lombard frieze linking turrets. Intermediate stair sections have high keyed blocked arches on ground floor, paired windows on 2 levels above with flat stone lintels and stone mullions, top corbelled parapet. Returns show similar detail to 2 windows of corner sections, and plainer walls beyond with glazing bars to metal-framed windows. Inserted loading doors.
INTERIOR: shows some stage and gallery structure and some C19 stucco ceiling detail.'
Site Name
24-26 Lambton Street, Salvation Army Citadel
Site Type: Specific
Salvation Army Hall
SITE_STAT
Listing Building Delisted
HER Number
4750
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
<< HER 4750 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/18/135; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non Conformist Chapels in Sunderland
YEAR1
2001
YEAR2
2023
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
COMP2
Clare Henderson
DAY1
25
DAY2
17
District
Sunderland
Easting
439907
Grid ref figure
10
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MONTH1
9
MONTH2
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
556997
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Sunderland
Description
Terrace of 14 houses with steps, dwarf walls and railings attached. 1830. 2 storeys and basements; each house 2 windows. Steps up to 6 - panelled doors of Sunderland type, folding back to form reveals of inner door, in doorcases of pilasters and entablature; doorcase to No. 46 has altered entablature. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sash windows, some with glazing bars and some altered. Nos. 45 and 48 have ground - floor wide bow windows. Roof has some dormers; No. 50, a canted bay of Sunderland type with slate - hung sides and gabled roof, Nos. 47 and 49 with flat heads. Some railings renewed. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Terrace
SITEDESC
Terrace of 14 houses with steps, dwarf walls and railings attached. 1830. 2 storeys and basements; each house 2 windows. Steps up to 6 - panelled doors of Sunderland type, folding back to form reveals of inner door, in doorcases of pilasters and entablature; doorcase to No. 46 has altered entablature. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sash windows, some with glazing bars and some altered. Nos. 45 and 48 have ground - floor wide bow windows. Roof has some dormers; No. 50, a canted bay of Sunderland type with slate - hung sides and gabled roof, Nos. 47 and 49 with flat heads. Some railings renewed.
Site Name
45 - 58 Frederick Street
Site Type: Specific
Terrace
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4749
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4749 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/18/84
YEAR1
2001
YEAR2
2021
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Civil
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
COMP2
Clare Henderson
DAY1
25
DAY2
17
District
Sunderland
Easting
439823
Grid ref figure
10
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Ashlar
MONTH1
9
MONTH2
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557176
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
These Gothic style buildings of 3, 2, & 3 storeys were built as offices for the Registrar and Poor Law Guardians in 1856, by Thomas Moore. They are in ashlar with Welsh slate roofs. The altered ground floor has 20th century shops. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Government Office
SITEDESC
Offices for Registrar and Poor Law Guardians. 1856. By Thomas Moore. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Gothic style. 3:2:3 storeys, 4:3:4 windows. Altered ground floor has 20th century shops. Central gabled section has 3 lancets under dripstring with central crocketed ogee; pierced quatrefoils flank finial. Pilasters defining gable have cusped panels and rise to octagonal pinnacles and spirelets with Tudor - flower finials. Gable has pierced panelled parapet with intermediate spirelets and finials. Flanking sections have label moulds and splayed reveals to sashes with glazing bars, some renewed; 4 right bays have original fine glazing bars to most windows; one wide 20th century window inserted. Moulded gutter cornice. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814 - 1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 15, 20).
Site Name
114 - 118 High Street West
Site Type: Specific
Local Government Office
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4748
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4748 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/18/105; Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates
YEAR1
2001
YEAR2
2021
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
COMP2
Claire MacRae
DAY1
25
DAY2
15
District
Sunderland
Easting
439670
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MONTH1
9
MONTH2
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557220
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Sunderland
Description
This is a Roman Catholic parish church of 1830-1835, by I. Bonomi. It has a sandstone ashlar west front, the remainder being limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and some 20th century ashlar. It has a Welsh slate roof. The church has a 3-bay nave and is built in 13th century style. Internally, the glass in the east windows is signed and dated T.C. Dickinson, London, 1946; in the north chapel the vivid north window is signed H.M. Barnett, Newcastle, commemorating Gilmore, died 1867. The cast-iron railings attached to the front and right return of the ritual south porch have spears with trefoils on principles.This is the earliest Gothic revival church surviving in Sunderland. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
The mother church of Sunderland and the first Gothic Revival Church to be built in the town (now city). It is an assured essay in the early English Gothic style by Joseph Bonomi of Durham, built soon after Catholic Emancipation and reflecting the growing confidence of Catholic church building at that time.
Roman Catholic parish church. 1830 - 1835. 1850 chapels, c1980 alteration to ritual S when attached presbytery demolished. Sandstone ashlar W front, remainder limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and some 20th century ashlar; Welsh slate roof; cast - iron railings. W is ritual E. Sanctuary; N and S chapel; 3 - bay nave. C13 style. Gabled W front to street has stepped buttresses with tall pinnacles flanking tall 3 - light window with cinquefoil in plate tracery; stepped triple arcade above, outer arches blind and central louvred, under crooked gable. Flanking lancets below smaller lights, under plain sloping coping. 2 - stage porches at each end, with pinnacled stepped and angled buttresses, have moulded door arches with nook shafts; bands above blind quatrefoil tracery; top stage 2 - light windows with quatrefoil tracery under Lombard frieze and top blind arcaded parapet. Gable has cross finial. S elevation has lancets. E front to Back Bridge Street has central trefoil below small lancet; lancets in outer bays; paired lancets in N and triple in S chapels. INTERIOR has W gallery on moulded cast - iron columns; inserted partition set back below. Chapels have paired double - chamfered arches on round column and attached half - columns, the N with shafts. High pointed - arched sanctuary, blind trefoil above and trefoil within, and flanking windows have nook shafts with clasping rings; hoodstring over pointed blind arches and windows. 4 confessional doors in N wall have shouldered arches with signs of the Passion carved in spandrels of chamfered surrounds under hoodstring. Panelled coved ceiling on brattished cornice and heraldic corbels. N chapel has Gothic - style reredos with high relief carved Annunciation, S chapel has E arcade. Rendered with alter brought forward; carved, painted Gothic reredos in situ. Glass in E windows signed and dated TC Dickinson, London, 1946; in N chapel vivid N window signed HM Barnett, Newcastle, commemorating Gilmore died 1867. Cast - iron railings attached to front and right return of ritual S porch: spears with trefoils on principles. The earliest Gothic revival church surviving in Sunderland. (Corfe T and Milburn G: Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland: 1984-: 10).
Site Name
Bridge Street, Church of St. Mary
Site Type: Specific
Roman Catholic Church
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4747
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4747 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/18/20
T. Corfe & G. Milburn, 1984, Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland, p 10; http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Hexham-Newcastle/Sunderland-St-Mary; Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates
YEAR1
2001
YEAR2
2016
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
COMP2
Rachel Grahame
DAY1
25
DAY2
14
District
Sunderland
Easting
440066
Grid ref figure
10
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
MONTH1
9
MONTH2
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557201
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Sunderland
Description
This 3 storey building comprises 2 houses with a later shop. It dates from the late 18th century on High Street West; early 19th century on Villiers Street. The eaves were altered and the shop front added in the mid-19th century. The High Street West building is in Flemish bond brick; the Villiers Street building in garden wall bond brick, with painted ashlar dressings. Both sides have a Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. LISTED GRADE II
SITEASS
Recently renovated.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
This building was listed Grade II in 1978 and has the following description:
'2 houses with later shop. Late C18 building on High Street West; early C19 house on Villiers Street; eaves altered and shop front added mid C19. High Street West building Flemish bond brick, Villiers Street building garden wall bond brick (5 and one), with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 3 windows and 3:2 in right return. Projecting ground-floor shop addition in tall Corinthian Order has steps up to central boarded door in round-headed opening with pilasters, voussoirs and projecting key. Flanking display windows framed by attached columns; within these, paired round-headed lights have pilasters and moulded keyed architraves. Upper floors have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to first floor sashes with glazing bars and smaller second floor casements. Deep eaves on entablature with second gutter cornice added on paired brackets. Roof hipped at corner with transverse ridge chimneys. Right return to Villiers Street has first build with 3 windows, blind in first bay and sashes with glazing bars in others as on first floor at front; No.58 Villiers Street, at right, has wood architrave to altered door recess under brick blocking and wedge stone lintel, containing steps up to renewed door and overlight; windows, all with glazing bars, similar to those of first build except that those on first and second floors are the same size. Eaves entablature and cornices continue from first build. Rear gable wall has single central first-floor sash, two of different sizes above, and two in gable peak, all with glazing bars and lintels and sills as on street fronts but unpainted.'
In 1857 No. 176 was the shop of William Moor, draper. No. 176 became the offices of Lambton Bank by 1869. By 1890 Fenwick's Brewery had taken over the property. Their brewery was in Low Street.
Site Name
176 High Street West, 58 Villiers Street
Site Type: Specific
House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4746
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4746 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/12/108; NAA, 2013, 170-175 High Street West, Sunderland - Statement of Significance; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1208538
YEAR1
2001
YEAR2
2024
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
Crossref
63
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
440050
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
NMRNUMBER
NZ 45 NW 269
Northing
557240
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Sunderland
Description
Public house. 1820 front range with ground floor refronted late C19. Faience ground floor; brick with painted ashlar and stucco dressings; felted slate roof with brick and rendered chimneys. 4 storeys, 2x5 windows with round corner bay; rear left return 2 storeys, 4 windows. Main 4 - storey block has canted corner entrance with coloured patterned tiles in tall pilasters flanking renewed door under blind semicircular overlight; key to blind roundel in stone tympanum between lion - mask brackets to segmental pediment. Faience ground floor, rusticated above high plinth, has panels of patterned tiles in plinth and between windows. Sill string to fixed lights with glazing bars and voussoirs. Upper floors have cornice on second floor; sashes with galzing bars and projecting stone sills, except on second floor, and painted projecting stone lintels. Top window blind in rounded corner which has large Roman capitals BRIDGE HOTEL attached to brickwork. Top cornice. Low pitched hipped roof has raised section over rear entrance bay, and end chimneys. 5 - window left return in similar style except third floor band instead of second floor cornice, and left bay blind above door in elliptical - headed plain reveals under scroll - bracketed hood. 2 - storey extension of left return contiunes with one faience bay at right on ground floor, and at left a pilastered shop front with bracketed fascia. First floor has 4 sashes in plain reveals with lintel band and projecting stone sills; high coped parapet. The façade includes the word 'Billiards' in blue and gold. Billiards was a French game, played in Britain since at least the 16th century, but it was exceptionally popular in the 19th century when many pubs had bespoke billiard rooms. LISTED GRADE 2
SITEASS
Pevsner - early C19. Three-and-a-half storeys tall, plain brick, with a tall pedimented corner entrance. Early C19 plasterwork in the main bar and an original staircase. C18 rear wing.
Site Type: Broad
Eating and Drinking Establishment
SITEDESC
Public house. 1820 front range with ground floor refronted late C19. Faience ground floor; brick with painted ashlar and stucco dressings; felted slate roof with brick and rendered chimneys. 4 storeys, 2x5 windows with round corner bay; rear left return 2 storeys, 4 windows. Main 4 - storey block has canted corner entrance with coloured patterned tiles in tall pilasters flanking renewed door under blind semi-circular overlight; key to blind roundel in stone tympanum between lion - mask brackets to segmental pediment. Faience ground floor, rusticated above high plinth, has panels of patterned tiles in plinth and between windows. Sill string to fixed lights with glazing bars and voussoirs. Upper floors have cornice on second floor; sashes with glazing bars and projecting stone sills, except on second floor, and painted projecting stone lintels. Top window blind in rounded corner which has large Roman capitals BRIDGE HOTEL attached to brickwork. Top cornice. Low pitched hipped roof has raised section over rear entrance bay, and end chimneys. 5 - window left return in similar style except third floor band instead of second floor cornice, and left bay blind above door in elliptical - headed plain reveals under scroll - bracketed hood. 2 - storey extension of left return continues with one faience bay at right on ground floor, and at left a pilastered shop front with bracketed fascia. First floor has 4 sashes in plain reveals with lintel band and projecting stone sills; high coped parapet. The façade includes the word 'Billiards' in blue and gold. Billiards was a French game, played in Britain since at least the 16th century, but it was exceptionally popular in the 19th century when many pubs had bespoke billiard rooms.
Site Name
145 High Street West, The Bridge Hotel
Site Type: Specific
Public House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4745
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4745 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 17
YEAR1
2001
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
439710
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Ashlar
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557030
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
This 3-storey, Palazzo style building, with dwarf walls and gates attached was erected in 1890 for Lambton's Bank. It is built in ashlar with a pink granite plinth and columns, a slate roof and has a cast-iron gate. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Bank (Financial)
SITEDESC
Bank with dwarf walls and gates attached. Constructed on the site of two former houses between 1889 and 1891 for Lambton's Bank. The River Wear Commissioners occupied the first floor until 1907. The building is constructed in a Palazzo style and is 3 storey with 5 x 3:2 windows. The building is constructed out of coal measure sandstone on a plinth of granite. Ashlar with pink granite plinth and columns and slate roof; cast - iron gate. Rusticated ground floor has high plinths to Tuscan porches of outer bays linked by balustrades in second and third bays of Fawcett Street elevation and interrupted by opening to area in third bay; pediments over pulvinated friezes of panelled doors. 3 central round - headed windows between attached columns have renewed glazing. Ground floor entablature projects over porches and supports recessed first - floor windows with Ionic pilasters and dentilled pediments. Sill string to second - floor casements with Tuscan Mansard roof has 5 dormers with round - headed lights under scrolled pediments. Left return has 3 bays in similar style to front; first bay at left projects under mansard roof; tripartite windows in lower central section. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814 - 1914: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983; 21). The building is currently used as a Lloyds Bank.
Site Name
54 Fawcett Street, Lloyd's Bank
Site Type: Specific
Bank (Financial)
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4744
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4744 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/18/73; Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates
YEAR1
2001
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
439750
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Ashlar; Granite
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557040
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Sunderland
Description
This 3-storey building was erected in 1902 to the design of W.B. Brierley of York (architect of important schools and other buildings in that city), for the York City and County Bank. It is built in grey granite at ground floor level, with ashlar above and a slate roof. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Bank (Financial)
SITEDESC
Bank. 1902. By WB Brierley of York for the York City and County Bank. Grey Granite ground floor; ashlar above; slate roof. 3 storeys, 5x6 windows and narrow canted corner bay. End and corner bays banded. Intermediate bays have giant attached Corinthian order with heavily modillioned cornice to top entablature which breaks forward at ends and back at corners. Door, now blocked, on angle below oriel with long brackets. Ground floor heavy pulvinated banded rustication; windows deeply recessed below mask corbels of triple keystones. Similar keys to first - floor windows in pilasters with entablatures, bracketed pediments, and balustraded balconies. Second - floor windows have architraves and bracketed sills. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814 - 1914: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 21).
Site Name
14 Fawcett Street, Midland Bank
Site Type: Specific
Bank (Financial)
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4743
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4743 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/18/68
YEAR1
2001
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
439770
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Ashlar
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557170
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
This bank, now offices, was built for the National Provincial Bank in 1876 by John Gibson. It is a Palazzo style building in sandstone ashlar with a granite plinth; and has a Welsh slate roof. LISTED GRADE 2
SITEASS
Pevsner - a good example of 1870s commercial. Tasteful late classical with an arched rusticated ground floor and an upper giant Ionic order carrying blank arches.
Site Type: Broad
Bank (Financial)
SITEDESC
Bank, now offices. 1876. By John Gibson. For the National Provincial Bank. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth; Welsh slate roof. Right return to Bedford Street. 3 storeys, 6x5 windows. Palazzo style. Rusticated masonry except for orders. Ground floor has round - headed opening; steps up to 4 - panel door with overlight in keyed corniced architrave. Similar heads to ground floor windows. Ground floor entablature supports giant order: square end pilasters with fluted necking, the others elaborately carved Ionic attached columns, framing first - floor keyed sashes and moulded aprons to second - floor round - headed windows in enriched hollow reveals. Long jewelled brackets on entablature support dentilled cornice. Low pitched hipped roof has corniced chimneys at rear and side.
Site Name
110, 111 and 112 High Street West
Site Type: Specific
Bank (Financial)
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4742
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4742 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/18/104; Iain S. Black, National Provisional Bank Buildings in North-East England in the Later Nineteenth Century, Durham Archaeological Journal 17, pp 63-82; Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates
YEAR1
2001
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Andrew Keith Elliott
Crossref
4740
DAY1
25
District
Sunderland
Easting
439750
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Ashlar
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557170
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
Hutchinson's Buildings (104-109 High Street West), rebuilt in 1898-9. A handsome late-C19 commercial design, whose main facade represents a subtle reworking of the theme of the original building by its use of classical orders presented in similar stone. It has a legible plan-form, retaining the basements of the original building but clearly reflecting late-C19 interest in creating chambers above commercial premises. It retains a variety of original fixtures and fittings including a Minton Hollins tiled hall, a neo-Jacobean stair, and plasterwork, joinery and chimneypieces to the upper levels. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Shopping Parade
SITEDESC
Hutchinson's Buildings.
Former shops and offices, rebuilt in 1898-1899 after destruction by fire, to the designs of Henry Miller Potts of Joseph Potts & Son.
MATERIALS: steel frame clad in sandstone ashlar, with possible reuse of some 1850 materials; Welsh slate roof; red-brick rear elevation.
PLAN: rectangular, facing the High Street.
EXTERIOR: situated on High Street West, the building has a symmetrical elevation with a three-bay central section of three storeys with three sets of paired windows, flanked by four-storey, two-bay end pavilions with two sets of paired windows. The building references rather than replicates the 1850s building that it replaced. The central entrance has a reeded surround within a doorcase of Tuscan fluted columns, on high panelled plinths, and an entablature with low relief ‘HUTCHINSON'S BUILDINGS’ on a frieze below a segment-headed corniced pediment with foliate sculpture. ‘Chambers’ appears in a panel above the panelled two-leaf door. The ground-floor shop fronts are C20 replacements. The first and second floors have high panelled plinths to giant Tuscan pilasters, fluted and reeded through the first floor, defining each pair of bays in slightly projecting central and end sections. There are moulded sills to horned sash window frames in plain reveals on both floors. The second floor entablature, breaks forward over the end projections, and has a pierced balustrade over a central pediment. The end pavilions have a corniced attic storey with pilasters and paired windows; acroteria on the cornice appear to have been re-used from the previous building. Corniced balustrades link the centre and end blocks. Windows are mostly late-C19 horned sashes, with the exception of those to number 103, whose original 1850s exterior was retained along with original sash windows. The rear elevation is of red brick with concrete lintels over the many window and door openings. A triple-height canted bay stair window lighting the main rear staircase, has largely blocked window openings with the exception of the second floor, which retains original fenestration.
INTERIOR: some cellar stone walls of the original 1850s building survive, with some brick rebuilding, beneath the late-C19 rebuilt ground and upper floors. The late-C19 plan forms of the ground and first floors have been lost through conversion to a later-C20 nightclub, and the main visible historic features of note in these areas is the late-C19 hallway entered from the central entrance, and a grand staircase. The hallway has a geometric encaustic tiled floor, a compartmented ceiling, and walls clad in Minton, Hollins and Co low-relief tiles; these have yellow panels with sunflowers below the dado, and panels in cream and brown with green birds in a pear tree above the dado. The grand, ornate neo-Jacobean wooden staircase has original treads, chunky newels and fluted balusters. The original cornice and tongue and groove ceiling is retained beneath a suspended ground floor ceiling. The second floor housing the original chambers retains its original plan but with partitions inserted: it has a communal reception room with plaster segmental arches with fluted keystones supported by fluted consoles, that give access to various areas; one pair of arches has a plaster niche set in between. There are a number of large second floor rooms (subdivided by C20 stud walls) with chimneybreasts and hearths but fireplaces removed. The two small third floors each have their own staircase
from the second floor. The more easterly forms a single room which retains a fireplace with an elaborate wooden surround and a cast-iron grate, and some original cornice and skirting; the glazed southern part of the roof indicates that this was a photographic studio. The more westerly attic has a short flight of timber stairs and a number of four-panel doors, skirting boards and an exposed hearth.
Site Name
104 - 109 High Street West
Site Type: Specific
Shopping Parade
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
4741
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 4741 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/18/103; G.E. Milburn & S.T. Miller, 1988, Sunderland River, Town and People, p 167; Pevsner, N, 1983, The Buildings of England: County Durham, p 458; Historic England, 2018, Hutchinson's Buildings 1 & 1a Bridge Street and 101-109 High Street West Sunderland: Investigation, Research and Assessment of Significance, Historic England Research Report; Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates
YEAR1
2001