The Shipwrights Public House, Ferryboat Lane

The Shipwrights Public House, Ferryboat Lane

HER Number
7144
District
Sunderland
Site Name
The Shipwrights Public House, Ferryboat Lane
Place
North Hylton
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
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
This public house was listed Grade II in 1994 with the following description:
'Two houses, now public house. Late C18 with alterations. Painted incised stucco on stone front with painted flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills; rear rubble of limestone and sandstone with brick dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping and rendered chimneys. 2 storeys, 6 windows. Renewed doors at centre of each house have painted flat stone lintels; similar lintels and painted projecting stone sills to sash windows, some renewed and some replaced with top-hung casements with glazing bars. Each house has end-ridge chimneys with corniced and tapered square yellow pots. INTERIOR shows cast-iron kitchen range against right side of central party wall, founder's plate Steel & Co., Sunderland, set in surround of chamfered and corniced stone. Surround and range transferred from upper room by present owner. Upper floor shows 4-panelled doors; brick-arched fires; queen post roof revealed in right section.' LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
435018
Northing
556986
Grid Reference
NZ435018556986
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/255; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1279927