St George'S House With Attached Steps, Railings And Yard Walls

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956SE PARK ROAD 920-1/22/170 (North side) 10/11/78 St George's House with attached steps, railings and yard walls (Formerly Listed as: PARK ROAD (North side) St George's House)

GV II

Also known as: St George's Building, Sunderland Polytechnic PARK ROAD. House with steps and railings to door, and yard walls. Used for teaching accommodation by Sunderland Polytechnic at the time of listing. c1855. Garden wall bond brick (5 and 1) with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Stone steps and cast-iron railings on S side. Brick walls and piers with ashlar coping. EXTERIOR: S and left return elevations have basement and 2 storeys; 4 windows. S elevation: steps up to 3-panel door in third bay, with plain overlight, in doorcase of engaged, fluted quasi-Corinthian octagonal columns and dentil cornice to entablature which breaks forward above columns. Basement has banded rustication and sashes with glazing bars. Other sashes, tripartite on ground floor left return, have stone sills and architraves each with frieze and cornice. Hipped roof of moderate pitch has C20 dormer. Right return has set-back C20 addition. High ashlar-coped walls break forward from right to enclose yard, and have square brick piers of same height at corners and forming central entrance to Park Road and side vehicle entrance on right return of yard. Originally part of St George's Place, a square which was damaged in WWII. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 61,64).

Listing NGR: NZ3967656315