1, 3, 5 and 7, Gideon Walk is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Institutional.
1, 3, 5 and 7, Gideon Walk
- WRENN ID
- heavy-loft-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Institutional
- Address
- 1, 3, 5 and 7, Gideon Walk, Jameson Manor, Ponteland, NE20 0FT
- OS grid reference
- NZ 153 740
- Coordinates
- 55.06049, -1.76084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 1, 3, 5 and 7 Gideon Walk are cottage homes for children built in 1903 by Leeson for the Newcastle Board of Guardians. They later served as Police Headquarters and a college. The buildings feature cavity walls made of stretcher bond brick, with some areas pebbledashed and painted, and they have Welsh slate roofs. Designed in the Domestic Revival style, the structure consists of two pairs of semi-detached houses.
The former Block 1-2 has a consciously asymmetrical facade, with one gable on the left and two on the right. It is two storeys high and has six bays. There are half-glazed doors located in the second and fifth bays. The outer bays contain Ipswich windows, while the first-floor windows are set in half-dormers with semicircular pediments. The gables are half-timbered and feature bargeboards, and the roof is hipped with three boarded ridge stacks.
The former Block 3-4 also has an asymmetric six-bay facade with similar doors. This block is two storeys high and includes a five-sided bay window under a pedimented gable in the fourth bay. It has a hipped roof with half-hipped transverse roofs over the outer bays and three corniced stacks.
These buildings are a notable example of the progressive approach to child care in the early 20th century.
Local climate
1, 3, 5 and 7, Gideon Walk receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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