Claremont Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Shop, office, university chaplaincy. 7 related planning applications.
Claremont Buildings
- WRENN ID
- seventh-minaret-dawn
- 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
- Shop, office, university chaplaincy
- Address
- Claremont Buildings, Eldon Place, NE1 7RD
- OS grid reference
- NZ 248 650
- Coordinates
- 54.97936, -1.61306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Claremont Buildings is a Grade II listed structure located on Eldon Place in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was built in 1896 by W. Hope for Fairless Harrison, a tanner, with additions made in 1905. The building features a steel frame and is clad in sandstone ashlar, topped with a graduated slate roof that has a copper dome on the turret.
The building stands three storeys tall with an attic and has six irregular bays. The ground floor is defined by Doric Order pilasters, while the first floor features Composite Order pilasters, which frame the four right bays that contain shop windows on both the ground and first floors. The two left bays have an office entrance on the right, sheltered by a segmental canopy, with alterations made to the ground floor in these bays and the third bay.
Sash windows are present throughout, with those on the second floor grouped in panelled pilasters beneath segmental pediments. There is a shop entrance at the right corner, situated under a corbelled turret. The building also features gabled dormers over the two left bays and three right bays, which are connected by a pierced parapet and adorned with raised shaped pediments and ball finials. Tall ashlar chimneys complete the architectural details of this notable building.
Local climate
Claremont Buildings 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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