Central Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. Offices. 3 related planning applications.
Central Buildings
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-slate-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1994
- Type
- Offices
- Address
- Central Buildings, West Sunniside, SR1 1BA
- OS grid reference
- NZ 398 571
- Coordinates
- 54.90734, -1.37928
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Central Buildings is a three-storey office building dating from circa 1900, located in West Sunniside, Sunderland. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with a Welsh slate roof featuring stone gable coping. It has nine windows across each floor and a basement level. The main entrance consists of double, six-panelled doors with a semicircular overlight, set within a doorcase of keyed architrave flanked by fluted pilasters and topped with a scrolled pediment. A secondary six-panelled door is located in the first bay, featuring block rustication to the lower portion and Tuscan engaged columns which support an entablature with a pulvinated frieze and segmental pediment. The windows are primarily plain sashes, except for a wider window in the two right-hand bays of the ground floor. Triple keystones are present above the ground-floor windows. The top floor has an entablature with the words "CENTRAL BUILDINGS" incised in the frieze, below a prominent eaves gutter cornice. A shaped gable over the three right bays contains paired windows set between pilasters, with a monogram within a pedimented aedicule. A balustrade extends from the gable to the left end of the building.
Local climate
Central 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 2008
- 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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