No. 20, Villiers Street is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. School, offices. 1 related planning application.

No. 20, Villiers Street

WRENN ID
riven-timber-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sunderland
Constituency
Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1978
Type
School, offices
Address
No. 20, Villiers Street, SR1 1EJ
OS grid reference
NZ 401 569
Coordinates
54.90592, -1.37581
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 20 on Villiers Street is a former school, now used as offices, built in 1849 for the adjacent Baptist chapel at No. 19. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar and has two storeys with five windows. There are internal steps leading up to a panelled door topped by a high overlight featuring glazing bars, all framed by block-rusticated Tuscan attached columns and an entablature. The windows, which have renewed glazing bars and pivoting central lights, are adorned with lugged architraves. The ground floor windows feature panelled labels extending from moulded sills down to the plinth, while the first-floor windows are set on a sill string. The building has rusticated quoins that are interrupted by a first-floor band, and an eaves entablature with a bracketed gutter cornice.

Local climate

No. 20, Villiers Street 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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