Borough Housing Department is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. Villa. 5 related planning applications.

Borough Housing Department

WRENN ID
former-keystone-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gateshead
Constituency
Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1950
Type
Villa
Address
Borough Housing Department, Nelson Street
OS grid reference
NZ 254 633
Coordinates
54.96393, -1.60394
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Borough Housing Department is an early 19th century four-square villa. It is constructed of local pinkish brick with stone dressings and features a low-pitched roof made of buffed Welsh slate. The building has deep eaves supported by paired stone brackets that project from a frieze, which rests on stone capitals of brick pilaster bay divisions. It stands two storeys high, with a layout of four narrower bays by three wider bays. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are adorned with stone lintels and cills. The central entrance on the south front features a plain stone classical doorcase with square columns. The building was purchased for use as a dispensary in 1835.

Local climate

Borough Housing Department 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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