Hendon, Ridley Terrace, Nos. 3-19

HER Number:
7170

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Hendon, Ridley Terrace, Nos. 3-19

Place:
Hendon

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

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 Sunderland cottages. C1880. Brick with stone plinth and brick dressings. Welsh slate roofs, except where renewed. Nos. 11 and 16 with concrete tiles and some felt-covered. Brick chimneys. Each house one storey. Internal steps up to doors, all renewed, grouped in pairs, with semi-circular overlights. Brick arches to surrounds in North Italian Gothic shape over doors and windows. Moulded brick eaves cornice removed from Nos. 3, 4 and 19. No. 13 has late C19 dormer. Nos. 5, 7, 9, 14, 15 and 18 are pebble-dashed. Nos. 6, 12 and 13 have painted brickwork. Listed as an example of an interesting type of C19 local workers’ housing which is centred on the Sunderland area and has resulted in a strong one-storey tradition, as opposed to the 2-storey Tyneside flats in the Tyneside area. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
4056

Northing:
5616

Grid Reference:
NZ40565616

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/14/177; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 464