Retaining Wall and Railings Around Corner of Raised Area Opposite Number 12 is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. Retaining wall.

Retaining Wall and Railings Around Corner of Raised Area Opposite Number 12

WRENN ID
brooding-stone-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sunderland
Constituency
Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1978
Type
Retaining wall
Address
Retaining Wall and Railings Around Corner of Raised Area Opposite Number 12, Green Terrace
OS grid reference
NZ 392 568
Coordinates
54.90445, -1.38866
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a retaining wall with railings, likely built in the mid to late 18th century, featuring 19th-century railings. The wall is made of limestone rubble with some brick patching and has a renewed rendered coping. It is a tall wall that showcases the decorative quality of limestone, which originally enclosed houses but now surrounds a public car park to the north of the Galen Building. The wall ramps up at the southern end. The railings are simple, with spike heads and curved stays attached to the principal supports.

Local climate

Retaining Wall and Railings Around Corner of Raised Area Opposite Number 12 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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