20, Front Street is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1985. A C18 House.
20, Front Street
- WRENN ID
- frozen-step-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 20, Front Street, NE16 4SJ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 209 613
- Coordinates
- 54.94596, -1.67453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Front Street is a house that was formerly a house and post office. It dates from the early 19th century and incorporates a mid-18th century house. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, a plinth, and quoins. It has a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings, and a one-storey, one-bay set-back extension with a pantile roof and stone gable copings. The main house features two corniced end brick chimneys, with one chimney on the extension. The structure is two storeys tall and has four windows. There is a Tuscan doorcase leading up two steps to a six-panelled door, with the upper panels being glazed. All windows are sash windows with glazing bars, and there are sill bands and an eaves band. The extension also has a sill band and features a window in a broader box. The right return facing the village green includes one sash window, a door, and an octagonal window in the gable peak. Inside, there is high-quality stucco decoration on the stair ceiling and one early 18th-century door located on the first floor at the rear.
Local climate
20, Front Street receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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