The Manor House

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956NE WEST SUNNISIDE 920-1/20/242 (South side) 10/11/78 The Manor House (Formerly Listed as: FOYLE STREET (East side) No.4 The Manor House)

GV II

Includes: No.5 The Manor House (part) FOYLE STREET. House, now offices and showrooms, in two builds with early C20 alterations. c1830, possibly incorporating an earlier building on the same site. Brickwork of varying colour with painted ashlar dressings and ashlar parapet coping; Welsh slate roof to right part, left part roof not visible. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3:3 windows to West Sunniside; 2 storeys:2 storeys and basement, 2:3 windows to Foyle Street. 2-storey, 3-window lower building facing N up West Sunniside has central 6-panel door and radial overlight in panelled reveals under open pediment on Tuscan attached columns. These have high panelled plinths and this doorcase has possible been brought from another building. Flanking corniced tripartite bow windows and 3 first-floor windows with wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills have glazing bars, those on first floor in renewed sashes, below coped parapet. Building at right has central prostyle fluted Greek Doric porch with triglyph frieze, with `Manor House' painted on entablature; at right, a corniced tripartite bow window; at left and on first floor, wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars. Hipped roof with truncated ridge chimney. Right return to Foyle Street has similar sashes in first two bays; next 3 windows are No.5, part of terrace and adjoining Nos 6-12 (qv). This has steps up to 8-panelled door at right in doorcase of pilasters and entablature, and plain sashes with wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Information from occupier: party walls between the Manor House and No.5 Foyle Street have been broken through to form one property. Renewed dwarf walls and cast-iron railings along Foyle Street frontage.

Listing NGR: NZ3998356927