The Tramcar Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. Public house.
The Tramcar Inn
- WRENN ID
- cold-dormer-lake
- 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 Tramcar Inn, 51, the Green
- OS grid reference
- NZ 383 584
- Coordinates
- 54.91956, -1.40358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tramcar Inn is a public house built in 1906 by HTD Hedley, showcasing an exuberant Jacobean style. The ground floor features glazed brown and yellow tiles, while the upper part is constructed with bright red brick in varying tones, accented with sandstone ashlar dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate with stone gable copings. The building has a two-storey gable facing the street, with an attic and one wide window.
On the ground floor, there are doors flanking three windows, arranged in an arcade supported by plain Corinthian columns on high plinths that form the doorcases. Below the windows, there is a panelled plinth, and the windows have keyed round heads adorned with low-relief cartouches and foliage in the spandrels. An entablature features a pulvinated frieze with the name "TRAM CAR INN" in low-relief letters, and there are broken pediments over the doors. The left door is blocked, while the right door is panelled with a plain overlight above.
The first floor includes a five-light window with mullions and transoms, featuring irregular block jambs within a flush stone surround. Above this, a three-light mullion window rises into a shaped gable topped with a ball-and-cushion finial. Roof drainage holes are located below the feet of the gable, accompanied by cast-iron drainpipes. Late 20th-century signboards for WHITBREAD and TRAMCAR INN are attached to the front of the building.
Local climate
The Tramcar 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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