8 Gilesgate is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1976. Residential.
8 Gilesgate
- WRENN ID
- night-shingle-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1976
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 8 Gilesgate, Hexham, NE46 3NJ
- OS grid reference
- NY 934 642
- Coordinates
- 54.97294, -2.10429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 8 Gilesgate is a building dating from around 1761, with later alterations. It stands three storeys tall with a basement and features six unevenly spaced windows. The structure is made of brick, accented with stone quoins, an eaves course, a plinth, and an arched entrance leading to the rear yard (No 8A). The windows have 19th-century stone architraves, and there is a columned, arched entrance to the house. The roof is slate and slightly tented, with a small kneeler on the left side, and there are brick chimneys. The main entrance is highlighted by a semi-circular canopy supported by Doric columns and features a five-panel door.
At the rear, the building is stone-built with a two-storey brick extension, and there is a tall semi-circular headed staircase window. Notably, there is a Sun Fire Insurance Mark in the center of the front, below the second floor, indicating a policy dated September 7, 1761, taken out by the Reverend William Totton, Rector of Hexham.
No 8 Gilesgate is part of a group with Hexham House and Nos 2 to 8 (even), along with the wall to the Bowling Green.
Local climate
8 Gilesgate receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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