Balustrade on Steps to Salisbury Street is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. Balustrade.
Balustrade on Steps to Salisbury Street
- WRENN ID
- haunted-pediment-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1978
- Type
- Balustrade
- Address
- Balustrade on Steps to Salisbury Street, Toward Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 399 565
- Coordinates
- 54.90207, -1.37811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The balustrade on the steps from Salisbury Street to Toward Road is a mid-19th century feature made of wrought iron. It consists of plain stick balusters and slender tapered newels, which have bases adorned with acanthus foliage and simplified foliage at the capitals. The balustrade supports plain band handrails on the north side of the lower flight and on both sides of the upper two flights of steps.
Local climate
Balustrade on Steps to Salisbury 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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