The Bridge Hotel

SUNDERLAND

NZ4057 HIGH STREET WEST 920-1/12/106 (North side) 20/01/75 No.145 The Bridge Hotel (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET WEST (North side) No.145)

GV II

Includes: Nos.24 AND 25 The Bridge Hotel (part) SUNDERLAND STREET. Public house. c1820 front range with ground floor refronted late C19. Faience ground floor; brick with painted ashlar and stucco dressings; felted slate roof with brick and rendered chimneys. 4 storeys, 2x5 windows with round corner bay; rear left return 2 storeys, 4 windows. Main 4-storey block has canted corner entrance with coloured patterned tiles in tall pilasters flanking renewed door under blind semicircular overlight; key to blind roundel in stone tympanum between lion-mask brackets of segmental pediment. Faience ground floor, rusticated above high plinth, has panels of patterned tiles in plinth and between windows. Sill string to fixed lights with glazing bars and voussoirs. Upper floors have cornice on second floor; sashes with glazing bars and projecting stone sills, except on second floor, and painted projecting stone lintels. Top window blind in rounded corner which has large Roman capitals BRIDGE HOTEL attached to brickwork. Top cornice. Low pitched hipped roof has raised section over rear entrance bay, and end chimneys. 5-window left return in similar style except third floor band instead of second floor cornice, and left bay blind above door in elliptical-headed plain reveals under scroll-bracketed hood. 2-storey left extension of left return continues with one faience bay at right on ground floor, and at left a pilastered shop front with bracketed fascia. First floor has 4 sashes in plain reveals with lintel band and projecting stone sills; high coped parapet.

Listing NGR: NZ4005457241