Public Lavatory, Outbuilding and Enclosing Walls, to East of Link House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1988. Public convenience.
Public Lavatory, Outbuilding and Enclosing Walls, to East of Link House
- WRENN ID
- vacant-tower-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington MP: Ian Lavery (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1988
- Type
- Public convenience
- Address
- Public Lavatory, Outbuilding and Enclosing Walls, to East of Link House, Links Road, Blyth
- OS grid reference
- NZ 320 796
- Coordinates
- 55.1105, -1.49974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a public lavatory, outbuilding, and enclosing walls located to the east of Link House. It was originally an engine house for a Defence Electric Light installation built between 1914 and 1919, and it now serves as a public convenience. Constructed of brick in English bond with concrete dressings and a reinforced concrete roof, the rectangular building is situated in a sunk walled enclosure with an outbuilding to the north.
It is a single-storey structure with six bays, featuring a projecting porch at the left end that is now inscribed 'LADIES'. There are four windows, which have been reduced in size, and these have stop-chamfered lintels. A later insertion has created a Gents' doorway on the right return. The roof is slightly pitched with overhanging eaves.
The enclosing wall has a pitched coping and extends to the north-west to flank a curving approach, with end piers topped by pyramidal caps. There is a flight of steps at the south-west corner. The north wall has an embayment with a later concrete roof that housed cooling tanks, while the east side features bases for petrol and oil tanks.
Originally, the building housed two dynamos with Crossley engines that powered the defence electric light emplacements located 50 metres to the east. As a part of a World War I Defence Electric Light installation, it is a rare surviving example.
Local climate
Public Lavatory, Outbuilding and Enclosing Walls, to East of Link House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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