3 Athenaeum Street

HER Number

4822

District

Sunderland

Site Name

3 Athenaeum Street

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Terraced House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

House. c1830. English garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with rendered plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 windows. Central flushed door and overlight with glazing bars in panelled reveal, possibly Sunderland - type doors folded back, with doorcase of fluted Doric half columns and entablature with shallow dentils and prominent cornice. Plain sash windows have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Roof has local style later19th century dormer with canted window and hipped roof. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

439950

Northing

556950

Grid Reference

NZ439950556950

Sources

<< HER 4822 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/20/9