20, Front Street is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
20, Front Street
- WRENN ID
- moated-column-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South MP: Bridget Phillipson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 20, Front Street, DH4 4EP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 337 515
- Coordinates
- 54.85744, -1.47516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Front Street is a house dating from around 1720. It is constructed of coursed squared pinkish sandstone and has a roof made of pantiles. The building stands two storeys high and features five windows, with one bay set back slightly to the right and at a lower height. The main block has five bays and a central door that is framed by a round-headed raised surround, complete with impost blocks and a keystone. Giant pilasters support an entablature that encloses a first-floor band. All windows are sash style and have 19th-century glazing bars, with architraves around them. The set-back bay includes a plank door beneath a stone lintel, with a similar sash window above it. The return gable is made of limestone rubble. The gables have overlapping stone coping, and there are two brick chimneys at the ends. The set-back bay features a hipped roof.
Local climate
20, Front Street receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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