170, 171 AND 173, HIGH STREET WEST

SUNDERLAND

NZ4057 HIGH STREET WEST 920-1/12/107 (South side) 10/11/78 Nos.170, 171 AND 173

GV II

Two houses with later shops. Late C18 houses; late C19 shops. No.173 at right refronted in late C19 and top storey rebuilt c1980. No.172 is subsumed in No.173. Nos 170 & 171 at left painted brick with painted ashlar dressings; No.173 bright brick with ashlar dressings and cast-iron first floor shop window. Welsh slate roofs. Each 3 storeys, 3 windows. Left building has projecting ground floor shop front, boarded below cornice; 4-pane sashes in architraves on upper floors, those on top floor smaller and with sill string. Right building has boarded ground floor shop; first floor projecting showroom window with wide central and curved corner sheets of glass set in slender cast-iron pilasters below cornice and entablature with brackets and mullions. Renewed second-floor windows have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills.

Listing NGR: NZ4008357210