Livingstone'S Public House

Livingstone's Public House, formerly known as Ship Isis, is a public house dated 1885, located on Silksworth Row in Sunderland. It is built in the Italianate style with an ashlar façade and a roof covered in concrete tiles. The building stands two storeys high and features six windows, with the third window being wider than the others.

The ground floor has a rusticated appearance above the plinth and includes renewed double doors with a plain overlight, set between Tuscan shafts and long moulded brackets in the third bay. Above the doors is a semicircular panel with a dentilled architrave, a carved tympanum displaying the date 1885, and a carved round finial with a patera. The ground floor windows have renewed glazing, an impost string, and shallow segmental heads. Paired reeded curved brackets flank the door shaft brackets leading to a floor cornice that breaks forward to accommodate the date panel and flanking pedestals topped with urn finials.

The first floor features arcaded mullion and transom windows with raised blocked overlights, recessed aprons to moulded sills, and a pulvinated frieze supporting raised round architrave heads with long keys. The window above the door is recessed in hollow reveals with panelled sides and a curved key. All first-floor keys extend to an ogee-moulded cornice of the top entablature. The roof parapet has a pierced balustrade with corniced dwarf piers, the outer piers topped with raised ball finials.