Sunderland, Fawcett Street, No. 19

HER Number:
17781

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Fawcett Street, No. 19

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Shop

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Building designed by M.K. Glass for the British and Colonial Furniture Company in 1929. The building is constructed out of brick with a decorative frontage constructed out of local measures sandstone. Brick chimneys can be observed on either side of the building. The structure has a large central window with decorative ironwork and carved sandstone features. The ground floor is currently used as a commercial premise for the British Heart Foundation.

Easting:
3977

Northing:
5699

Grid Reference:
NZ39775699

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates