Lodge to Benwell Waterworks is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Lodge.

Lodge to Benwell Waterworks

WRENN ID
waning-buttress-woodpecker
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
Lodge
Address
Lodge to Benwell Waterworks, Axwell Park View
OS grid reference
NZ 207 642
Coordinates
54.97219, -1.67748
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lodge to Benwell Waterworks, likely built in 1857 for the Whittle Dean Water Company and designed by engineer Robert Nicholson, is a single-storey structure in the Tudor style. It is constructed of snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and a plinth, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring sloped gable copings. The building has three bays, with a central Gothic-panelled door set in long-and-short block jambs beneath a flattened Tudor arch. There are mullioned cross windows in similar surrounds, and the low-pitched roof includes a central chimney. A square bay window is located on the left return.

Local climate

Lodge to Benwell Waterworks receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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