National Coal Board Central Garage is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. Garage.
National Coal Board Central Garage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-hall-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South MP: Bridget Phillipson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1985
- Type
- Garage
- Address
- National Coal Board Central Garage, Voltage Terrace
- OS grid reference
- NZ 334 520
- Coordinates
- 54.86188, -1.48016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Coal Board Central Garage is a power station built around 1906 for the Durham Collieries Power Company. It is constructed of yellow brick with red brick dressings and has a felt roof. The building features a basement and one high storey, with a layout of 9 bays by 3. The gable faces the street and is set on a mound, with three brick panels that contain tall round-headed metal windows with pivoting lights, flanking a blocked-in vehicle entrance under a blocked-in window. Above this, there is a four-keystoned ox-eye window, and the gable peak has a group of seven panels. The left side of the building has vehicle entrance doors to the basement and no windows, with 18 corbels at the original eaves level and dentilled eaves. Inside, there is a cast iron balcony along the south side with cast iron staircases leading to the ground and basement. Historically, the building was incorporated into the NESCO system by 1911.
Local climate
National Coal Board Central Garage 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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