10, Church Street East

SUNDERLAND

NZ4057 CHURCH STREET EAST 920-1/12/43 (East side) 08/05/50 No.10

GV II*

House, now workshop and storage. Early C18; said to have been built in 1710 for John Freeman. Late C18-early C19 alterations. Double pile. Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings; dark slate roof with brick chimneys. 3 storeys and basement, 5 windows. Angle pilasters, floor strings (second rests on keystones), ground-floor band. Sashes with fine glazing bars, some renewed, under finely rubbed flat brick arches with keystones and stone sills to which projecting stone has been added. Some basement windows blind; some blocked at time of survey. Steps up to recessed flushed central door; lost doorcase. Two steeply pitched parallel-ridge roofs with end chimneys. At rear, 2 first-floor sashes with broad glazing bars and round-arched central stair window. INTERIOR: ground floor central passage. Architraves to doors, the right with upper part removed. Keyed arch on pilasters to stair in rear range. Before stair another arch at left to spine passage, walls removed. Entrance hall and stair have ramped dado rail. Dog-leg stair with winders. Shallow steps have block tread-ends, stick balusters and mahogany handrail of narrow, smooth early-C19 moulding but ramped to echo dado. First floor landing with wide keyed arches to either side and to lobby for rooms at front; front right room chimney-piece with pilasters and cornice; rear left first has plain stone surround and early-C18 cast-iron grate, bars removed; architraves to early-mid C18 sashes with ovolo-moulded broad glazing bars. Stair to second floor from lobby. Rear room has keyhole-shaped cast-iron grate, bars missing.

Listing NGR: NZ4050357307