Piers and Lamp Holders North of Gateshead Housing Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1985. Public infrastructure.
Piers and Lamp Holders North of Gateshead Housing Offices
- WRENN ID
- old-casement-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Jarrow and Gateshead East MP: Kate Osborne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1985
- Type
- Public infrastructure
- Address
- Piers and Lamp Holders North of Gateshead Housing Offices, Sunderland Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 278 619
- Coordinates
- 54.95173, -1.56728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The piers and lamp holders north of the Gateshead Housing Offices were built in 1902 for the Felling Urban District Council. There are five piers made of rock-faced sandstone, each featuring square shapes with plinths and domed corniced tops. The lamp holders are tall, art nouveau wrought iron structures with spreading heads. The lamp holders on the piers at the central entrance display the monogram F.U.D.C.
Local climate
Piers and Lamp Holders North of Gateshead Housing Offices 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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