Walls, Piers and Railings to Children's Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. Walls, piers and railings.

Walls, Piers and Railings to Children's Hospital

WRENN ID
little-merlon-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sunderland
Constituency
Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1994
Type
Walls, piers and railings
Address
Walls, Piers and Railings to Children's Hospital, Durham Road
OS grid reference
NZ 382 554
Coordinates
54.89233, -1.40539
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls, piers, and railings of the Children's Hospital in Sunderland were constructed around 1910 by W and TR Milburn. They feature brick piers and walls accented with ashlar bands, copings, and finials, along with wrought-iron railings. The gates have been removed. A low brick wall with chamfered ashlar coping connects the brick piers, which have similar coping and brick and ashlar entrance piers at the east and west entrances to the drive. The square entrance piers are banded and have central pilasters that project over the coping, supporting ball finials. The plain spike-headed railings, which have a double top rail, are mounted on a bottom rail and connect the piers.

Local climate

Walls, Piers and Railings to Children's Hospital 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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