Cottage And Former Stable To Fulwell Water Pumping Station

SUNDERLAND

NZ36SE SHIELDS ROAD, Fulwell 920-1/1/253 (West side (off)) Cottage and former stable to Fulwell Water Pumping Station

GV II

Cottage, perhaps originally 2 cottages, and stable to Fulwell Water Pumping Station (qv). Probably 1852 by Thomas Hawksley. Brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting and brick and ashlar chimneys. Tudor style. One storey; 4-bay cottage at left with 3 windows, 5-bay stable at right. Cottage has 2 projecting gables at right; below valley gutter a gabled porch projects and has half-glazed door in chamfered stone Tudor-arched surround; canted bay windows under gables with pierced stone quatrefoils in gable peaks. Left 2 bays have blocked door at right with Tudor-arched stone lintel and label mould; paired left windows with flat stone lintel and projecting stone sill. All windows sashes, margined in centre of canted bays. Stable at right has Tudor-arched stone lintel at left under label mould; 4 Maltese-cross openings in pierced stone ventilators under eaves. Bargeboards to gables; roof has decorative ridge cresting; ashlar-corniced ridge chimneys.

Listing NGR: NZ3890260602