Northern Counties Club is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1965. Club. 5 related planning applications.
Northern Counties Club
- WRENN ID
- steep-rotunda-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West MP: Dame Chi Onwurah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1965
- Type
- Club
- Address
- Northern Counties Club, Hood Street, NE1 6JQ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 249 644
- Coordinates
- 54.97364, -1.61189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Northern Counties Club, originally known as the Tyne Hotel, is a building constructed around 1839 for Richard Grainger. It is located on Hood Street in Newcastle upon Tyne. The structure is made of sandstone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof. It stands four storeys high and has nine bays. The ground floor is rusticated and includes a renewed double door with an overlight set within a shallow fluted Doric porch. The building has sash windows in plain reveals, with aprons beneath the long first-floor windows and a sill band on the second floor. There are floor bands, and the second-floor entablature is topped with a prominent cornice. The top floor features an eaves band and cornice, along with a corniced ashlar chimney.
Local climate
Northern Counties Club 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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