Websters Public House

Websters Public House is a secondary building of a former ropeworks, now serving as a public house. It dates from the early 19th century and was restored around 1985 by Sunderland Borough Council. The structure is made of roughly squared rubble with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. It has two storeys and six windows. The second bay includes a round-headed archway with a keyed plain stone surround and renewed wrought-iron gates. The windows have flat stone lintels, alternate-block jambs, and projecting stone sills, and they are fitted with glazing bars. The roof has end gable copings, and the right, or west, corner is rounded on the ground floor beneath corbelling. The right return features a diagonal brick buttress on a stone plinth. The rear of the building is built into a hillside. This building was part of Webster's Ropery, established around 1793 for the world's first mechanical rope-making process.