The Railway Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. A C18 Public house.

The Railway Inn

WRENN ID
solemn-flue-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sunderland
Constituency
Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1978
Type
Public house
Address
The Railway Inn, Robson Place
OS grid reference
NZ 413 528
Coordinates
54.86844, -1.35727
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Railway Inn is a public house that was originally built as a house in the late 18th century. It features painted incised stucco with painted ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof with dark grey ridge tiles and a brick chimney. The building is two storeys high and has three windows on the main facade, with two lower storeys and two windows. There is a pent extension on the left side.

The entrance consists of a low wide panelled door with a plain overlight located to the right of the taller section of the building. The ground floor windows are of irregular size, with the left window possibly being a blocked opening; these have plain reveals and painted projecting sills. The first-floor windows are sashes with glazing bars, featuring wood architraves and painted projecting sills.

The lower section on the right has two plain round floor windows and small renewed first-floor sashes also with wood architraves and projecting sills. The roof is hipped, with truncated chimneys at the right end of each section. The left side of the taller section has renewed ground-floor windows, with the left window under a catslide roof, and one wide sash above with glazing bars, a wood architrave, and a projecting painted sill. The building is prominently positioned above a road cutting.

Local climate

The Railway Inn 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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