Register Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. Office. 3 related planning applications.
Register Buildings
- WRENN ID
- eternal-oriel-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1978
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Register Buildings, 114-118, High Street West, SR1 1TX
- OS grid reference
- NZ 398 571
- Coordinates
- 54.90774, -1.38029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located on High Street West in Sunderland, was constructed in 1856 as offices for the Registrar and Poor Law Guardians. Designed by Thomas Moore, it features a Gothic style with ashlar stonework and a Welsh slate roof. The structure has three storeys in the central section and two storeys on the flanking sections, with a total of four windows in the central part and three in each of the sides. The ground floor has been altered to accommodate 20th-century shops.
The central gabled section showcases three lancet windows beneath a drip string, with a central crocketed ogee and pierced quatrefoils on either side of the finial. The pilasters that define the gable are adorned with cusped panels and rise to octagonal pinnacles and spirelets topped with Tudor-flower finials. The gable itself features a pierced panelled parapet with additional spirelets and finials. The flanking sections have label moulds and splayed reveals for the sash windows, some of which have been renewed. The four right bays retain original fine glazing bars in most windows, although one wide 20th-century window has been inserted. A moulded gutter cornice completes the design.
Local climate
Register Buildings 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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