Wheatsheaf Hotel Public House

SUNDERLAND

NZ3957 ROKER AVENUE 920-1/11/178 (South side) 10/11/78 No.207 Wheatsheaf Hotel Public House (Formerly Listed as: ROKER AVENUE (South side) The Wheatsheaf Hotel)

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Public house. 1897-8. By S Oswald & Son. For Bell & Taylor. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth and door architraves; roof of graduated slates with ashlar chimneys. Roughly triangular plan, the W side rounded; classical style. 3 storeys; 4 windows to Roker Avenue, 6 on rounded corner, one wider on Thomas Street North. Rusticated ground floor has doors in 2nd and 6th bays of curved section and in 3rd bay on Roker Avenue; these are 6-panelled, with plain overlights, in granite architraves with scroll brackets supporting segmental pediment hoods. Ground-floor windows are fixed lights with some opening transom lights, and rusticated voussoirs with triple keys rising through frieze to cornice of ground-floor entablature. Upper floors have bays defined by rusticated pilasters with Ionic capitals supporting big dentilled entablature with WHEAT SHEAF HOTEL incised on frieze in well-cut letters. Sash windows have upper glazing bars, in architraves, those on first floor corniced, with ogee pediments to those above doors and in bay between doors on curve; blind bays on second floor above doors in curve have low-relief carved wheatsheaf. Roof has curved hip over curved end; 3 tall corniced ashlar chimneys. An important building at the junction of 6 roads. (Pearson L F: The Northumbrian Pub an Architectural History: Warkworth: 1989-: 98-9).

Listing NGR: NZ3970957939