Tunstall Lodge, Burdon Road

HER Number

7001

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Tunstall Lodge, Burdon Road

Place

Tunstall

Map Sheet

NZ35SE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

House, 1807. Rendered; roof of Welsh slate. 2 storeys, 5 windows. Central glazed 4-panelled door under patterned oblong fanlight in Greek Doric porch with fluted columns. Sash windows with glazing bars in plain reveals and projecting stone cills. Intersecting tracery to Venetian window over door. First and second floor windows have trompe l’oeil sashes. Ground floor rear windows are horizontal sliding sashes. Corniced ashlar chimneys. Interior – stair either side of full-height entrance hall. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

438700

Northing

552240

Grid Reference

NZ438700552240

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 5/1; William Whellan & Co, 1856, History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham… p 615