Douro Terrace Including Douro House (No. 7) With Steps And Railings

NZ3956SE 920-1/22/21 10/11/78

SUNDERLAND BURDON ROAD (West side) (Consecutive) Nos 3-7 (cons) Douro Terrace incl. Douro House (No.7) with steps and railings

(Formerly Listed as: BURDON ROAD (West side) Douro Terrace (Nos. 3-7 consec.))

GV II

Terrace of houses, most now offices, with steps and railings in front. c1854. By GA Middlemiss. For RJ Moore. Garden wall bond brick (5 and 1) with painted ashlar basement and ashlar and stucco dressings; Welsh slate roof except for synthetic slates in imitation of Welsh slate on No.4 and 5 houses, each basement and 2 storeys, most 3 windows, No.3 with 2 windows. No.7 has 3 windows on left return. Basement has banded rustication. Nos 3, 4 and 5 have doors at left in heavy Doric doorcases with engaged fluted columns supporting entablatures with triglyph frieze, and bow windows at right through basement and ground floor. First-floor sashes have sill band and horizontal glazing bars under wedge-shaped stuccoed lintels. No.6 has ground floor altered with windows inserted under lintels of end-on headers. No.7 has later square bay on ground floor, and first-floor sashes with vertical glazing bars, architraves and cornices. Eaves frieze and cornice, dentilled to No.6, below low pitched roof with ridge chimneys. Gabled dormers inserted in Nos 3 and 4, the latter with four round-arched lights. Left return of No.7 has ground floor continuing from basement of main terrace, with central Tuscan porch with keyed arches, tripartite square and canted bay windows, and 2 segment headed dormers. Bull-nosed steps to Nos 3 and 5, renewed to No.4, with cast-iron balustrades to Nos 3 and 4. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 60-61; Buildings of England: Pevsner; revised Williamson: County Durham: Harmondsworth: 1983-: 460).

Listing NGR: NZ3974156263