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Date of photo: 2025	Picture source: Simon Armstrong
The Ropery was situated on Websters Bank. This grade-II listed pub was formerly known as Websters.
Listed building details:
Secondary building of ropeworks; now public house. Early C19; restored c1985 by Sunderland Borough Council. Roughly squared rubble with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. 2 storeys, 6 windows. Keyed plain stone surround and renewed wrought-iron gates to round-headed archway in second bay. Flat stone lintels, alternate-block jambs and projecting stone sills to renewed windows with glazing bars. Roof has end gable copings. Right, west, corner rounded on ground floor below corbelling. Right return has diagonal brick buttress on stone plinth. Rear built into hillside. An additional building for the Webster's Ropery (qv) established c1793 for the world's first mechanical rope-making process.
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Date of photo: 2025	Picture source: Simon Armstrong