Shields Road, cottage and stable

HER Number

7197

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Shields Road, cottage and stable

Place

Fulwell

Map Sheet

NZ36SE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Industrial House

Site Type: Specific

Industrial House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Cottage, perhaps originally two cottages, and stable to Fulwell Water Pumping Station (HER 2687). Probably 1852 by Thomas Hawkesley. Brick with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting and brick and ashlar chimneys. Tudor style. Cottage has 2 projecting gables at right with half-glazed door in a Tudor-arched surround. Canted bay windows. All windows sashes. Stable at right has Tudor-arched stone lintel, four Maltese-cross openings in pierced stone ventilators under eaves. Bargeboards to gables. Roof has decorative ridge cresting and ashlar-corniced ridge chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

438900

Northing

560600

Grid Reference

NZ438900560600

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/1/253