Former South Guard House and Attached Wall to South East, Fenham Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1971. Guard house.
Former South Guard House and Attached Wall to South East, Fenham Barracks
- WRENN ID
- endless-wicket-poplar
- 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
- Guard house
- Address
- Former South Guard House and Attached Wall to South East, Fenham Barracks, Barrack Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 236 649
- Coordinates
- 54.97904, -1.632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former South Guard House and attached wall to the southeast of Fenham Barracks in Newcastle upon Tyne was built between 1804 and 1806 by James Wyatt, who served as the Surveyor General to the Ordnance Board. This structure, which has been disused since it operated as a restaurant from 1970 to 1990, is constructed from brown sandstone ashlar and features ashlar gable stacks, with a rear brick block and a slate hipped and gabled roof.
The building has a single-depth plan with offices located to the left. The exterior is a single storey, with a windowless street front and a nine-window rear office elevation. The guard house gable is adorned with a coped pediment that includes raised corner blocks and a central raised round-headed niche in a blind recess. This niche is situated beneath an overhanging blind oriel supported by moulded stone brackets, and it contains three rifle slots beneath a blind lunette. Notably, four courses from the ground, the quoins are replaced by wide cast-iron blocks. To the right, there is a coped wall featuring a flat-headed opening and a rusticated pier that marks the former entrance to the barracks. The brick block has flat-headed openings that were boarded at the time of the last survey in 1994.
The interior was not inspected. The attached former barracks wall, which has flat coping, serves as the front wall to the office and extends approximately 400 meters to the southeast, northeast, and northwest, enclosing the southeast end of the former barracks. Historically, the Ordnance Board was responsible for artillery barracks during the Napoleonic War. This guard house is one of a pair of striking and unusual structures associated with Fenham Artillery Barracks, connected by a late 20th-century glazed archway to the gateway, which is not of special interest. It is part of a group that includes the former officers' and sergeants' messes. The barracks wall attached to Fenham Barracks East Lodge was listed on March 30, 1987.
Local climate
Former South Guard House and Attached Wall to South East, Fenham Barracks 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Former North Guard House and Attached Wall to North West, Fenham Barracks
- Former Sergeants' Mess, Fenham Barracks
- Former Officers' Mess, Fenham Barracks
- Whiteknights
- 3, Belle Grove Place
- Church of St Philip
- Chimney Mill and Mill House
- Prospect House
- Westgate Road Baptist Church, Sunday School and Hall
- The Balmoral Public House