18, Front Street is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. House.
18, Front Street
- WRENN ID
- heavy-merlon-dust
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NZ 337 515
- Coordinates
- 54.85741, -1.47541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 18 Front Street is a house built in 1720 and refurbished around 1800. It features coursed blocks of pinkish sandstone and a roof made of pantiles. The building has two storeys and two windows. On the ground floor, there are two wide, segmental-headed openings that have been blocked, along with an inserted central tripartite sash window and a door beneath an oblong fanlight on the right. The first floor has two tripartite sash windows. All windows include glazing bars, painted lintels, and modern external louvred shutters. The house has an eaves gutter board, a low gable parapet, and a brick chimney at the left end. Inside, there are shutters for the wide-splayed window on the ground floor, some architraves, and a two-panelled door on the first floor, as well as an enclosed stair.
Local climate
18, 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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