Sunderland, Foyle Street, Nos. 5 - 12

HER Number:
4727

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Foyle Street, Nos. 5 - 12

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Multiple Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
Terrace

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Terrace of 8 houses; 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. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3998

Northing:
5691

Grid Reference:
NZ39985691

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4727 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/20/77; Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates