Ryhope Road, Ashburne House

HER Number

7175

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Ryhope Road, Ashburne House

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Villa

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

House, now part of Sunderland University School of Art and Design. c1835. For Edward Backhouse, banker. East extension possibly for museum in 1869 by GG Hoskins of Darlington. Flemish bond brick with ashlar basement and dressings. 2 storeys and basement. Basement has Ionic colonnade. Full length casement windows flank central door on ground floor. First floor sashes with glazing bars. Public park was formerly the grounds of this house. Used as a VAD Hospital during the First World War. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

439850

Northing

555770

Grid Reference

NZ439850555770

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/16/185; GE Milburn and ST Miller, 1988, Sunderland River, Town and People, pp 61 and 152; T Corfe, 1983, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, p 14; G Potts, Backhouse Building in Spotlight, 7; List Entry Number 1209651; www.donmouth.co.uk/local_history/VAD/VAD_hospitals.html (accessed 2014); British Red Cross, 2014, List of Auxiliary Hospitals in the UK during the First World War