53, Grey Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1965. Office, shop, house. 3 related planning applications.
53, Grey Street
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-courtyard-lake
- 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
- Office, shop, house
- Address
- 53, Grey Street, NE1 6EE
- OS grid reference
- NZ 249 642
- Coordinates
- 54.97195, -1.61224
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 Grey Street is a shop and house, now used as offices, built around 1837, likely designed by John Wardle for Richard Grainger. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar and has four storeys with three bays. The ground floor, dating from around 1900, features a plinth and rusticated pilasters. It has a renewed door set back between the pilasters, which has block rustication beneath a fanlight with a wrought-iron grille and a many-keyed arch. Above the ground floor, an entablature with a prominent cornice supports a giant Corinthian Order, featuring attached square end columns and four intermediate fluted columns that frame the bays. The first floor has plain sash windows in architraves, with those on the first floor being pedimented, and a wrought-iron balcony on the outer bays. The second floor is highlighted by a prominent entablature with a modillioned cornice, and the top floor has pilasters and a cornice, with renewed windows in plain reveals.
Local climate
53, Grey Street 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 2015
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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