176, HIGH STREET WEST (See details for further address information)

SUNDERLAND

NZ4057 HIGH STREET WEST 920-1/12/108 (South side) 10/11/78 No.176 (Formerly Listed as: VILLIERS STREET (East side) No.58) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET WEST (South side) No.176)

GV II

Includes: No.58 VILLIERS STREET. 2 houses with later shop. Late C18 building on High Street West; early C19 house on Villiers Street; eaves altered and shop front added mid C19. High Street West building Flemish bond brick, Villiers Street building garden wall bond brick (5 and one), with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 3 windows and 3:2 in right return. Projecting ground-floor shop addition in tall Corinthian Order has steps up to central boarded door in round-headed opening with pilasters, voussoirs and projecting key. Flanking display windows framed by attached columns; within these, paired round-headed lights have pilasters and moulded keyed architraves. Upper floors have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to first floor sashes with glazing bars and smaller second floor casements. Deep eaves on entablature with second gutter cornice added on paired brackets. Roof hipped at corner with transverse ridge chimneys. Right return to Villiers Street has first build with 3 windows, blind in first bay and sashes with glazing bars in others as on first floor at front; No.58 Villiers Street, at right, has wood architrave to altered door recess under brick blocking and wedge stone lintel, containing steps up to renewed door and overlight; windows, all with glazing bars, similar to those of first build except that those on first and second floors are the same size. Eaves entablature and cornices continue from first build. Rear gable wall has single central first-floor sash, two of different sizes above, and two in gable peak, all with glazing bars and lintels and sills as on street fronts but unpainted.

Listing NGR: NZ4006657201