Atlas Chambers Shop in Occupation of Messrs Jacksons is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Shop, offices.
Atlas Chambers Shop in Occupation of Messrs Jacksons
- WRENN ID
- lost-vault-gorse
- 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, offices
- Address
- Atlas Chambers Shop in Occupation of Messrs Jacksons, Westgate Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 244 640
- Coordinates
- 54.97049, -1.61939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Atlas Chambers is a shop and office building located at 88 Westgate Road in Newcastle upon Tyne, dated 1894, featuring a distinctive corner turret. The structure is built from sandstone ashlar with a pink granite office door surround. The roof is not visible, but the corner turret has a fishscale copper roof. The building stands four storeys high with an attic and consists of six bays along Westgate Road, including a curved corner bay facing Clayton Street and one tripartite bay on the right return.
The office entrance is situated on the left, featuring a panelled double door and overlight set within an architrave, supported by rusticated pilasters and topped with a tall double key entablature. The shop fronts have been altered. The upper floors are adorned with sash windows that include glazing bars and are framed in lugged architraves. The first-floor windows have high moulded friezes with a central carved panel beneath cornices that feature a semi-circular pediment. The second-floor windows are segmental-headed, with block rustication and key brackets.
A giant Ionic Order frames the upper floors and supports an entablature with a modillioned cornice. The top windows are flanked by paired attached Tuscan columns beneath a top entablature. The corner turret displays a date panel beneath a colonnade with paired corner columns, all featuring block rustication and narrow scrolled pediments over the corner projections, topped with a domed roof. The roof balustrade supports consoles that flank two dormers, which have sash windows in architraves with tall keys beneath segmental pediments. The building is capped with tall chimneys that feature pilasters and cornices.
Local climate
Atlas Chambers Shop in Occupation of Messrs Jacksons 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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