Newcastle General Hospital Young People's Unit and Dwarf Walls in Front is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Hospital. 3 related planning applications.

Newcastle General Hospital Young People's Unit and Dwarf Walls in Front

WRENN ID
fossil-latch-foxglove
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
30 March 1987
Type
Hospital
Address
Newcastle General Hospital Young People's Unit and Dwarf Walls in Front, 416a, Westgate Road, NE4 6BE
OS grid reference
NZ 227 645
Coordinates
54.9748, -1.64648
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Newcastle General Hospital Young People's Unit, originally a house, dates from the early to mid-19th century. It is built of sandstone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has a basement and two storeys, with five bays, the central bay projecting slightly. Access is via four steps leading to a central part-glazed six-panelled door set within a Tuscan porch. The ground floor has plain sash windows in architraves, which include cornices, while the first floor features windows with projecting sills. There is a sill band on the ground floor and a band above the sill level on the first floor. The building is accented by giant end pilasters with incised panels and has a wide eaves gutter cornice. The low-pitched hipped roof is topped with two corniced ridge chimneys. Dwarf walls with flat coping flank the steps leading to the porch.

Local climate

Newcastle General Hospital Young People's Unit and Dwarf Walls in Front 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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