Watch House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Coastguard station. 1 related planning application.
Watch House
- WRENN ID
- knotted-cornice-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Coastguard station
- Address
- Watch House, Newton-By-The-Sea, NE66 3HW
- OS grid reference
- NU 240 248
- Coordinates
- 55.51706, -1.62066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watch House is a coastguard station built in the second quarter of the 19th century. It is constructed from squared rubble with cut dressings and is whitewashed, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring a brick stack. The building has a T-plan layout and a plinth.
On the coastward elevation, it is a single storey with three bays. The central bay projects and has an open-pedimented gable along with a canted pyramid-roofed bay window that has been renewed with glazing. The flanking bays contain segmental-headed windows with slightly projecting sills; the right bay features a 12-pane sash window, while the left bay is blocked. The hipped roof has a stepped-and-corniced ridge stack located near the right end. The returns of the building also display similar 12-pane sashes.
On the rear elevation, there is a central porch with a 4-pane casement beneath a pedimented gable, and an arched boarded door on the right return. The flanking bays on this side have blocked segmental-arched windows.
The Watch House is included in the listing for its historical interest.
Local climate
Watch House 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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