Public Convenience at South End of Approach Span to New Tyne Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1981. Public convenience. 1 related planning application.

Public Convenience at South End of Approach Span to New Tyne Bridge

WRENN ID
noble-landing-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gateshead
Constituency
Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 August 1981
Type
Public convenience
Address
Public Convenience at South End of Approach Span to New Tyne Bridge, Church Street, NE8 2AT
OS grid reference
NZ 254 635
Coordinates
54.96602, -1.60368
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The public convenience at the south end of the approach span to the New Tyne Bridge was built around 1928, likely by architect R Burns Dick. This elegant small building features incised concrete and stands on a broader rusticated plinth that supports wrought iron handrails and contains staircases. It has a square plan with chamfered rebated angles. Each face displays an inset frieze, a cornice band, and a slightly pediment-shaped blocking course. There are four moulded round-arched openings, with doors on the east and west faces featuring fish-scale iron fanlight grilles, while the windows on the other faces have radial metal glazing. The building has oak panelled double doors with the borough arms above. The ground floor interior is also oak panelled and includes a shallow central glass dome, with plain tiled lavatories located in the plinth.

Local climate

Public Convenience at South End of Approach Span to New Tyne Bridge receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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