3 houses, now offices, with steps, dwarf walls, area cover and railings attached. 1840. Flemish bond brick; painted basements, incised stucco work to No. 31, brick to others, and painted ashlar dressings to all. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Stone steps and dwarf walls, wrought - iron railings and area cover. 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Steps up to Sunderland - type doors at left of each house, Nos. 31 and 33 altered, folding back to form panelled reveals to inner doors and overlights. No. 32 the inner door also panelled, others renewed. Doorcases of Tuscan pilasters and entablatures with shallow dentils to Nos. 31 and 32. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sash windows, some renewed, glazing bars to lower sashes on first floor of No. 33. Roof has transverse ridge right end chimney to each house, with pots to No. 32. Gabled dormer with slate - hung slides, front 3 - pane sashes and single - pane lights on returns, 2 large roof lights inserted in No. 32, 2 smaller flush lights in No. 33. Ashlar steps have plain iron balustrades with flat handrails, spiral - ended where not joined to front railings which are spike - headed, and curved area cover to No. 33 at right.

Terrace of 8 houses. The architecture is influenced by the design of 18th-century terraces in Bath, London and Edinburgh. The terraces were constructed for professional middle-class families. 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.

House, now offices and showrooms, in two builds with early 20th century alterations. 1830, possibly incorporating an earlier building on the same site. Brickwork of varying colour with painted ashlar dressings and ashlar parapet coping, Welsh slate roof to right part, left part roof not visible. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3: £ windows to West Sunniside; 2 storeys : 2 storeys and basement, 2: 3 windows to Foyle Street. 2 - storey, 3 - window lower building facing N up West Sunniside has central 6 - panel door and radial overlight in panelled reveals under open pediment on Tuscan attached columns. These have high panelled plinths and this doorcase has possible been brought from another building. Flanking corniced tripartite bow windows and 3 first - floor windows with wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills have glazing bars, those on first floor in renewed sashes, below coped parapet. Building at right has central prostyle fluted Greek Doric porch with triglyph frieze, with 'Manor House' painted on entablature; at right, a corniced tripartite bow window; at left and on first floor, wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars. Hipped roof with truncated ridge chimney. Right return to Foyle Street has similar sashes in first two bays; next 3 windows are No. 5, part of terrace and adjoining Nos. 6 - 12 (qv). This has steps un to 8 - panelled door at right in doorcase of pilasters and entablature, and plain sashes with wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Information from occupier: party walls between the Manor House and No. 5 Foyle Street have broken through to form one property. Renewed dwarf walls and cast - iron railings along Foyle Street frontage. In 1860s occupied by J. Jopling draper of Jopling and Tuer.

Terrace of 12 houses with steps and railings attached. Second quarter C19. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Stone steps, rendered dwarf walls and cast - iron railings. EXTERIOR: each house 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Roll - moulded coping to basements. 5 stone steps to doors, numbered left - right. Nos. 28 and 29 at left are wider houses, and have central doors; 30, 31, 32 have doors at right; 33 and 34 at left; remainder at right. Sunderland type doorcases of Tuscan - pilaster - and - entablature cases, and doors to two - leaf 8 - panel tall double doors which fold back to form panelled reveals to inner 6 - panelled doors and overlights, some with glazing bars. No. 29 has door blocked. Renewed early 20th century pedimented doorcase to No. 34 and door to No. 33. Sashes, with glazing bars to No. 28 and renewed glazing bars to Nos. 29 and 31, have wedge stone lintels; projecting stone sills except for the first floor sill band. 20th century plate glass shop window inserted across 2 bays of No. 33. Some basement sashes have glazing bars. Area in front of No. 35 filled in. No. 28 at left has one - bay left return to Athenaeum Street. Dwarf walls and bull - nosed stone steps have leafy headed standards, crown finials to principals; some steps and railings renewed.

Terrace of houses, now offices with steps and railings attached. Built between 1820 and 1850. English bond brick with painted ashlar basements and dressings; Welsh slate roofs with ridge brick chimneys. Ashlar dwarf walls and cast and wrought - iron balustrades and railings. Each 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Basement has channelled rustication. Steps up to doorcases of engaged fluted Doric columns supporting entablature with palmette and anthemion frieze. Double panelled doors with plain overlights except radiating glazing bars to No. 15; central panels roundels, in reveals with similar panelling; No. 11 has pediment with foliage; No. 12 has square pilasters. Doors removed from No. 16; No. 15 ground floor altered. Sash windows, some with horizontal glazing bars and some with glazing bars removed, have wedge stone lintels and sill strings. Moulded gutter cornices. Transverse ridge chimneys; gabled canter dormer to No. 12. Steps have railings with central chrysanthemum motif on each; front railings have piers formed by the clusters of 4 posts. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 59, 60). Number 12 was the home of Henry Binns (the owner of Binns store) in 1860.

River Wear Commissioners' Offices. 1907. By John Hall. Scottish red granite, rock - faced basement and polished doorcase; Durham sandstone ashlar. Slate roof. Free Baroque style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement, 7 windows. Basement windows in outer bays. Ground floor has banded rustication. Central bay has wrought - iron gates to internal steps up to double panelled door. Rusticated entrance surround has open segmental pediment hood on Tuscan pilasters and big scroll brackets; big key cartouche with carved pair of dividers. 2 - storey oriel above has top segmental pediment. Outer pairs of bays project under open segmental pediments. Windows with vertical glazing bars in double - keyed architraves except basement triple keys. Roof parapet has raised bracketed panels over outed outer pediments. Right return to John Street 2: 2: 2 bays in similar style. INTERIOR: partly inspected. Alabaster and marble archway from entrance to oak - panelled hall and stair - well with oak columns, Tuscan on ground floor and Ionic above, with moulded grip handrail on turned balusters; close string with laurel - wreath pulvinated frieze. Panelled doors on both levels have architrave surrounds with pulvinated frieze and cornice. First - floor board room has moulded panels with raised fields, pilasters with carved swags, engraved entablature, bolection - moulded marble fire surrounds, segmental - arched ceiling with bands of rich stucco decoration. A building which represents the considerable history of the management of the Wear. The Commission was set up in 1717. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814 - 1914: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 31; Corfe T: Sunderland A Short History: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1973-: 49, 50; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 158, 167 NOTE 32).

Terrace of 11 houses with steps, dwarf walls and railings attached constructed in 1840. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one), most with tuck pointing, and painted ashlar basements and dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Stone steps and dwarf walls and cast and wrought - iron railings. EXTERIOR: each 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Basements have channelled rustication. End pairs of houses treated as pavilions, with giant pilasters and doors paired at centre; others have doors at right. Steps up to panelled doors of Sunderland type, folding back to form reveals of inner doors, most with round central panels. Doorcases of fluted Doric columns supporting enblature with palmette and anthemion frieze, except No. 57 which has square Tuscan pilasters and No. 58 which has lost doorcase. Wedge stone lintels and sill strings between corner pilasters to sash windows, some renewed and some with glazing bars. Hipped roof has transverse ridge chimneys and some added dormers, No. 49 a Sunderland type with slate - hung sides, canted bay and a hipped roof. No. 48 has left return to Athenaeum Street with giant pilasters; 2 windows on each floor, the left ground floor window a canted bay, and sill strings between corner pilasters. Most steps up to doors have moulded steps and tread ends; balustrades have linking central rosettes and plain wrought handrails; railing mostly spear - headed, some renewed. In the basement of 54 are two commemorative brass plaques. The first plaque commemorates the death of George Hudson who bequeathed his wealth to a charity that provided for orphans between the ages of 8 and 14. It reads ‘George Hudson Charity’. The second plaque is to the Sunderland Orphanage and Educational Foundation.

Subscription library with attached window guards and balcony. 1878. By Austin, Johnson and Hicks, as part of subscription library. Ashlar with cast - iron window guards and balcony; light grey slate roof. Baroque palazzo style. 3 storeys, 8 windows. Rusticated ground floor, now altered, with double panelled door in third bay in round - headed opening under bracketed segmental hood, the central bracket with draped escutcheon. Giant Corinthian pilasters define bays above. Plain sashes on upper floors have keyed architraves, those on the second floor with segmental heads and projecting aproned sills. Iron guards link pilaster basews and, in central bay of 5 - bay bank at right, project as balcony. Top enblature has pulvinated frieze and modillioned cornice. Side consoles to 7 segmental - headed dormers with keyed architraves to plain sashes. Tall corniced ridge chimneys. Designed as part of a larger project, including the Woods Bank at No. 53 (qv), in which this was the front range of the subscription library. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814 - 1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 11; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 160).

A bank constructed between 1875 and 1878 by Austin and Robert James Johnson (of Newcastle) for Wood's Bank in a Baroque palazzo style from local coal measure sandstone. Ashlar with cast - iron balconies; slate roof. 3 storeys ant attics, 5 x 3 windows. Renewed doors and semi - circular overlights in end bays of rusticated ground floor with architraves on impost strings of keyed round - headed openings; renewed round - headed windows in other bays with recessed panelled aprons. Giant Corinthian order above, square pilasters at corners and attached round columns to intermediate bays, linked by elaborate first - floor cast - iron sashes with glazing bars, keys rising to floor string between pilasters and to elliptical - headed second - floor sashes on moulded sills and aprons. Big top enblature with pulvinated frieze and modillioned cornice. Hipped roof has side consoles to oeils de boeud dormers in central and end bays and taller segment headed dormers between. Right return has 3 bays in similar style without doors and with 3 segment headed dormers, and 4 set - back bays with rusticated ground floor having doors in outer bays and triple - keyed ground floor tripartite windows; plainer treatment to upper floors with cornices, pediments and keyed architraves to various windows. An important corner building, and designed for Woods Bank as the key to a larger scheme, including the Subscription Library at No. 52 (qv), which was intended to fill a complete block. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814 - 1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983 - 21; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988 - : 160). The building is currently used as a Barclays Bank.

Corder and Sydenham house located at no 21 and 22 Fawcett Street. The houses were designed by Frank Caws between 1889 and 1891 and built by David and John Rankin and JC Edwards (terracotta) for Alexander Corder a draper. The buildings replaced fire-damaged premises. Corder house was used as a shop and Sydenham House was used as Meng’s Restaurant. The buildings are constructed in a Gothic and Baroque style. Brick and terracotta; roof plain tiles; concrete fireproof flooring. Eclectic mixture of Gothic and Baroque/Flemish styles. No. 21 at left 3 storeys, 6 windows under 2 gables with attics; No. 22 at right 3 storeys, 3 windows with attic in central gable. Both with altered shop fronts. No. 21 has ground - floor panelled fascia and cusped arcaded frieze with roll - moulded coping. Projecting canted bays on arcaded first floor are flanked by narrow lights with Gothic capitals to pilasters and elaborate heads over central lights of canted bays; all with paired, mullioned cusped over lights and drip string. Second - floor central balustraded balcony has panels with Gothic letters; curvilinear windows with paired arcaded top lights have shallow canted centres under balustraded attic balconies. Elliptical - headed cusped attic arches to recessed windows are flanked by scrolls and pilasters which rise to high shaped gables with terracotta patterns, central oval lights, and raised segmental pediments. Dates 1856 and 1890 in outer panels at eaves level. Steeply pitched roof has central lantern with Gothic lights and high conical roof. No. 22 at right has moulded ground floor fascia and frieze below full - width balcony with stone balustrade. First - floor windows, tripartite in centre and paired in outer bays, have upper glazing bars in curvilinear heads below swags and second - floor balcony which projects in centre over panelled pilasters defining first floor central bay. Square - headed second floor lights have raised arches with pendants, the central bay defined by plain pilasters with scrolled pediment heads, under panelled band and outer scrolled pediments. Central attic gable has raised segmental pediment over eclectic tracery of wide arched light containing smaller cusped lights. Steeply pitched roof has end chimney.
Frank Caws' own office was in these buildings {1}. Two three-storeyed buildings with unusually fine and elaborate terracotta facades {2}. Two 3-storey buildings with elaborate red terracotta facades. Individually designed by same architect, but possessing overall unity of character. No. 21 ("Corders", built 1889) is the more elaborate with complex fenestration, including two balustraded bays rising into 2-storeyed attic dormers which flank a central dormer with spire in a steep tiled roof. No. 22 ("Sydenham House", built 1891) consists of 3 principal bays, the flanking bays of two lights, each pedimented, and the central bay of 3 lights, rising into a Dutch gabled attic dormer containing central light with gothic tracery. Architect Frank Caws, terracotta maker J.C. Edwards, David and John Ranken, contractors) {3}.