The Powder House North East of Seahouses Point is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1997. Explosives store. 1 related planning application.
The Powder House North East of Seahouses Point
- WRENN ID
- second-courtyard-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1997
- Type
- Explosives store
- Address
- The Powder House North East of Seahouses Point, Pace Hill, North Sunderland
- OS grid reference
- NU 224 321
- Coordinates
- 55.58274, -1.64476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Powder House, located north-east of Seahouses Point, is an explosives store built in 1886. It is constructed from sandstone and has a rectangular plan with straight walls and a barrel vaulted roof. The building features a single doorway on the south-west front, which is topped with a timber lintel. This structure was specifically built for the storage of gunpowder used in blasting during the construction of the Long Pier and the New Harbour.
Local climate
The Powder House North East of Seahouses Point receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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