Numbers 1-16 With Attached Handrails

This is a terrace of 16 houses built around 1854, designed by G.A. Middlemiss for A.J. Moore. The terrace is located on Saint Bede's Terrace in Sunderland. The houses are two storeys high, with basements to most, and generally have three windows to front, although numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 11 have only two. They are constructed with a garden wall bond brickwork, with painted ashlar dressings; the left return to Park Road is rendered. The roofs are covered in Welsh slate with brick chimneys. Original iron handrails are attached to steps leading to the doors of numbers 4 to 16. Doorways to the right of each house (except number 16, which has an entrance on its right return) feature engaged fluted Corinthian columns and dentilled entablatures. The doors are of a Sunderland type, panelled to fold back, revealing inner doors and overlights. Ground-floor windows are canted and have panelled pilasters and modillioned cornices; a similar window is on the first floor of number 1. Other upper-floor windows, some with four panes of glass and some replacements, have bracketed projecting sills to lugged architraves. The roofline has a bracketed eaves gutter cornice and incorporates several gabled dormers. These include Sunderland-style dormers with canted bay windows and hipped roofs, some with renewed glazing, and some inserted roof lights. The left return to Park Road displays wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to two blind windows on each floor, with one renewed window on the first floor. A round-headed blind attic window in the gable peak has a projecting stone sill. The right return of number 16 features a central entrance flanked by canted bay windows, with wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to two left windows and a right blind window above. Keyed round surrounds are present to the window heads, with projecting stone sills to the two attic lights in the gable peak.