Gates, Piers and Railings to Former Sunderland Orphange is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. Community centre.
Gates, Piers and Railings to Former Sunderland Orphange
- WRENN ID
- dusk-truss-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1994
- Type
- Community centre
- Address
- Gates, Piers and Railings to Former Sunderland Orphange, Moor Terrace
- OS grid reference
- NZ 406 570
- Coordinates
- 54.90636, -1.36722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gates, piers, and railings to the former Sunderland Orphanage, now a community centre, were constructed in 1861, as indicated by the inscription on one of the piers that reads "BOYS ORPHANAGE SUNDERLAND 1861." The structure features rendered stone piers and brick walls topped with rendered stone coping. There are four tall square piers, each with plinths, cornices, and stepped pyramidal coping, which create entrances at the north and south ends of the wall to the west of the former orphanage. The wrought-iron gates have plain dogbars beneath a central rail and are adorned with intertwined fish finials. The railings, which are similar in design, are set within a brick wall that has segmental coping and pilasters at intervals, supporting clustered railings that form open piers.
Local climate
Gates, Piers and Railings to Former Sunderland Orphange sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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