Former North Eastern Railway Stables

The building is a former North-Eastern Railway stables, constructed between 1883 and 1884. Designed by William Bell for the North-Eastern Railway Co. Ltd., it is located in Sunderland, Monkwearmouth. The structure is primarily red brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings, and has Welsh slate roofs. All window and arch openings are accentuated by ashlar lintels.

The entrance façade features a central two-storey section with eleven windows, flanked by single-storey wings each with eleven windows. A large central archway has a segmental red brick arch with ashlar and blue brick dressings. Above the archway is a moulded ashlar eaves band and a dormer with a circular window and half-hipped roof with decorative barge-boards. Cast iron wheel buffers are positioned at the base of the arch. The ground floor features eight stable windows with ashlar lintels, above a continuous blue brick band. The upper floor has five larger stable window openings on either side, also with ashlar lintels, and connected by a continuous blue brick band.

The inner façade presents a similar central archway topped with a dormer resembling that on the entrance façade. To either side are two stable windows, followed by two large garage openings with inserted garage doors (dating from circa 1930). Further stable windows and a single stable door follow. Above are two larger window openings on each side, then a loft doorway topped by a hoist under a dormer roof, and finally three further large windows. The single-storey wings on either side incorporate a single boarded opening, an inserted garage door, another boarded window, a plank door with overlight, and three more boarded windows.

The inner courtyard contains a Horse Hospital block with an asphalt roof. Its south façade displays three stable doorways with over-lights, alternating with two stable windows; above are five larger windows. The north façade is symmetrical, featuring a central stable doorway flanked by two glazing bar sash windows on each side. Above is a central loft door topped by a hoist under a dormer roof, flanked by smaller windows.

A single-storey Van Shed was added circa 1912 to the south, characterized by large, continuous garage doors and a slate roof. A single-storey stable range to the north has been converted into motor workshops, displaying three inserted sets of garage doors and two former stable windows on the left side.