157 and 159, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. A Late C18 Former house/school. 5 related planning applications.
157 and 159, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-quoin-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1987
- Type
- Former house/school
- Address
- 157 and 159, Main Street, North Sunderland, NE68 7TU
- OS grid reference
- NU 211 314
- Coordinates
- 55.57649, -1.66611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 157 and 159 on Main Street is a late 18th-century building that was originally one house and later used as a school by the Lord Crewe Trustees from 1850 to 1904. The structure is built of ashlar stone and has a Welsh slate roof, designed in an L-shape over two storeys and three bays.
The former central round-headed doorway has been converted into a window and features moulded imposts, an archivolt, and a fluted keystone. It retains its original fanlight with intersecting glazing bars. The windows are 12-pane sashes with sill bands, and there is a cornice above. The gabled roof has flat coping and end stacks, with the left stack being renewed in brick. There are also doorways located at the rear of the building.
Local climate
157 and 159, Main Street receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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