Tyne and Wear HER(7222): Sunderland, Mowbray Park, south lodge - Details
7222
Sunderland
Sunderland, Mowbray Park, south lodge
Sunderland
NZ35NE
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces
Garden Building
Gate Lodge
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Lodge to Mowbray Park, now disused. Dated 1856. Building contractor W. Scott. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings including projecting quoins. Welsh slate roof with fishscale bands and stone gable coping, limestone and ashlar chimneys. Tudor style. One storey. Projecting gabled porch at right. Date 1856 incised in keystone. Tudor-arched door in porch with bargeboards. Mullioned and transomed window. Borough coat of arms on stone plaque in gable peak.
Mowbray Park is on Building Hill, from which stone was quarried for many of Sunderland’s buildings. The Corporation purchased it from the Mowbray family for £2000 in 1854, the grounds were laid out by the Marquis of Londonderry’s gardener, Lawson, and the park was opened in 1857. Windows and doors blocked and building derelict at time of survey. LISTED GRADE 2
3997
5645
NZ39975645
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/22/224; T. Corfe, 1983, The Builkdings of Sunderland 1814-1914, p 29