Bede Tower

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956SE BURDON ROAD 920-1/22/22 (East side (off))

GV II (Formerly Listed as Bede Tower at Sunderland Polytechnic)

Villa, in use as polytechnic building at time of listing. 1851. By J and B Green for AJ Moore, Mayor of Sunderland. Ashlar with graduated grey slate roof. Italianate style. 2 storeys; 5-stage tower and 3 windows; right return garden front 5 windows. N elevation: tower has plinth, steps up to rusticated porch with impost string to open round-headed arch and smaller round-headed open light on right return; 4-panelled door and semicircular overlight in roll-moulded surround; first floor string with pierced balustrade to balcony on big moulded brackets in front of keyed round-headed window with impost blocks; narrow window on right return; projecting quoins and floor strings to upper stages with paired lights on third, single on fourth and triple stepped lights on fifth below prominent modillioned eaves cornice with acroteria; low pitched pyramidal roof. Gabled bay set back at right has prominent quoins above plinth and similar jambs to tripartite ground floor sashes with flat stone lintel and stone mullions; small inserted light at left; first floor string continuing from tower; first floor blank below impost string continuing from tower second stage as sill band to 3 wide lights with flat stone lintels; prominent eaves on paired curved brackets. Right return garden front has projecting jambs and rusticated voussoirs to ground-floor windows, and impost string below architraves of keyed first-floor windows, all 4-pane sashes, the 2nd-4th in a canted bay with hipped roof on gabled projction; paired eaves brackets. Roof has corniced panelled ridge chimneys. Sports Hall added to rear. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 61; Buildings of England: Pevsner revised Williamson: County Durham: Harmondsworth: 1983-: 461).

Listing NGR: NZ3982556211