11 - 17 John Street, and steps and railings
11 - 17 John Street, and steps and railings
HER Number
4724
District
Sunderland
Site Name
11 - 17 John Street, and steps and railings
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Terrace
Site Type: Specific
Terrace
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
This terrace of houses, now offices, with steps and railings attached, was built between 1820 and 1850. It is 2 storeys high with a basement, built in English bond brick with painted ashlar basements and dressings; Welsh slate roofs with ridge brick chimneys, and ashlar dwarf walls with cast- and wrought-iron balustrades and railings (with a central chrysantheum motif on each). LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
439840
Northing
556990
Grid Reference
NZ439840556990
Sources
<< HER 4724 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/20/127; Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates