Douro Terrace Including Douro House (No. 7) With Steps and Railings
3-7, DUORO TERRACE, BURDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279553
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Douro Terrace Including Douro House (No. 7) With Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- 3-7, DUORO TERRACE, BURDON ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279553
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Douro Terrace Including Douro House (No. 7) With Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3-7, DUORO TERRACE, BURDON ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- DOURO HOUSE, 7, DUORO TERRACE, BURDON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 3-7, DUORO TERRACE, BURDON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- DOURO HOUSE, 7, DUORO TERRACE, BURDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 39741 56263
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391396
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 60-61
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: County Durham, (1983), 460
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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