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West Hendon House

A Grade II Listed Building in St Michael's, Sunderland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8969 / 54°53'48"N

Longitude: -1.381 / 1°22'51"W

OS Eastings: 439799

OS Northings: 555976

OS Grid: NZ397559

Mapcode National: GBR VCV.D4

Mapcode Global: WHD5C.R5LR

Plus Code: 9C6WVJW9+QJ

Entry Name: West Hendon House

Listing Date: 10 November 1978

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1279869

English Heritage Legacy ID: 391577

ID on this website: 101279869

Location: Humbledon View, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR2

County: Sunderland

Electoral Ward/Division: St Michael's

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Sunderland

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear

Church of England Parish: Bishopwearmouth St Nicholas

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description


SUNDERLAND

NZ3955 RYHOPE ROAD 920-1/16/199 (West side) 10/11/78 West Hendon House

GV II

House, now a home for the elderly. c1830,incorporating C18 house, with late C19/early C20 additions in similar style. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with tooled ashlar dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof; earlier house now rear wing is rendered. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 x 9 windows, with additions to left. Angle pilasters to main front, left tower addition and extension, and canted bays on right return. Original 3-window front has central half-glazed 4-panelled door and overlight in prostyle wood porch with square columns. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sash windows, some with glazing bars; deep eaves on paired scroll brackets, probably added later. Right return garden front has central and right parts added: glazed wooden porch flanked by wide canted bays with hipped roofs. Rear elevation shows Venetian stair window in main building; 2-storey, 3-window rendered earlier house, now kitchen wing, has sashes with glazing bars in broad boxes. INTERIOR shows Ionic screen in entrance hall; doors to right have architraves with paterae.

Listing NGR: NZ3979955976

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