Wall and Railings of the Museum and Art Gallery Fronting Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1983. Museum accessory.
Wall and Railings of the Museum and Art Gallery Fronting Road
- WRENN ID
- silver-belfry-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Tyneside
- Constituency
- South Shields MP: Emma Lewell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1983
- Type
- Museum accessory
- Address
- Wall and Railings of the Museum and Art Gallery Fronting Road, Ocean Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 364 672
- Coordinates
- 54.9988, -1.43162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall and railings of the Museum and Art Gallery, built between 1858 and 1860, are located along the front area facing the road. The structure features a low brick wall with intermediate brick piers. The wall is topped with stone coping, and the piers have stone caps. Decorative cast iron panels are set between the piers, adding an ornamental touch to the design.
Local climate
Wall and Railings of the Museum and Art Gallery Fronting Road receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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