Walls and Four Mooring Posts to North Dock Basin is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. Wall and mooring posts.

Walls and Four Mooring Posts to North Dock Basin

WRENN ID
proud-paling-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sunderland
Constituency
Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1978
Type
Wall and mooring posts
Address
Walls and Four Mooring Posts to North Dock Basin, Harbour View
OS grid reference
NZ 408 583
Coordinates
54.91838, -1.3645
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls and four mooring posts to the North Dock Basin in Sunderland were built between 1834 and 1837 by the renowned engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Wearmouth Dock Company, following a Royal Charter. By 1847, the structure was owned by the York and Newcastle Railway Company, and by 1934, it came under the River Wear Commissioners. The walls are made of granite ashlar and feature a high design with a curved batter and bull-nosed edging. The mooring posts are cast iron. This structure is significant as a work by one of the greatest engineers of the 19th century.

Local climate

Walls and Four Mooring Posts to North Dock Basin 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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