53, Westgate Road is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1971. House, offices. 6 related planning applications.

53, Westgate Road

WRENN ID
mired-remnant-summer
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
17 December 1971
Type
House, offices
Address
53, Westgate Road, NE1 1SG
OS grid reference
NZ 246 639
Coordinates
54.96985, -1.61681
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 53 Westgate Road is a house that has been converted into offices, dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is constructed of bright red brick with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is four storeys high and has five bays.

In the 1960s, a front and passageway were inserted on the right, made of late 19th-century stone. The fascia includes a cast iron rail on the cornice. The upper floors are adorned with tapered end pilasters and a cornice at each level. The sash windows are set within architraves and have stone panels above them, with aprons on the top two floors that create vertical stone strips. The building also features moulded sills and capitals on the top pilasters at the level of the window lintels, along with a top entablature that has a covered cornice. The roof is large and includes two ridge chimneys. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

53, Westgate Road 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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