Numbers 11-17 With Steps And Railings Attached

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956NE JOHN STREET 920-1/20/127 (East side) 08/05/50 Nos.11-17 (Consecutive) with steps and railings attached (Formerly Listed as: JOHN STREET (East side) Nos.11-17 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of houses, now offices, with steps and railings attached. Built between 1820 and 1850. English bond brick with painted ashlar basements and dressings; Welsh slate roofs with ridge brick chimneys. Ashlar dwarf walls and cast and wrought-iron balustrades and railings. Each 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Basement has channelled rustication. Steps up to doorcases of engaged fluted Doric columns supporting entablature with palmette and anthemion frieze. Double panelled doors with plain overlights except radiating glazing bars to No.15; central panels roundels, in reveals with similar panelling; No. 11 has pediment with foliage; No.12 has square pilasters. Doors removed from No.16; No.15 ground floor altered. Sash windows, some with horizontal glazing bars and some with glazing bars removed, have wedge stone lintels and sill strings. Moulded gutter cornices. Transverse ridge chimneys; gabled canted dormer to No.12. Steps have railings with central chrysanthemum motif on each; front railings have piers formed by clusters of 4 posts. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 59,60).

Listing NGR: NZ3984056990