The Turk's Head Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1965. Hotel. 7 related planning applications.
The Turk's Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- upper-iron-moth
- 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
- Hotel
- Address
- The Turk's Head Hotel, 69-73, Grey Street
- OS grid reference
- NZ 249 642
- Coordinates
- 54.97236, -1.61251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Turk's Head Hotel is a Grade II* listed building located on Grey Street in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was built around 1837, likely designed by John Wardle for Richard Grainger. The hotel features a classical style and is constructed from sandstone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof. It stands four storeys tall with attics and has eight bays.
The three left bays of the building continue the plain style of the adjacent Nos. 61 to 67, featuring a rusticated ground floor with a cyma-moulded plinth, altered windows, and a cornice. Above this, the plain reveals to the sashes are complemented by a second-floor sill band. There is a second-floor band and an entablature below the top floor, which is adorned with a cornice and blocking course.
The five bays on the right have end pavilions, with a rusticated ground floor that includes two entrances in the left two bays and three altered windows, as well as a carriage entrance in the right end bay. The ground floor has a fascia and cornice. The upper floors are characterized by Giant Orders, featuring flat Doric pilasters on the pavilions and attached fluted Ionic columns that define the central three bays. The second-floor sills are moulded in the central three bays and have a band in the outer bays. All windows are sashes with glazing bars, and the second-floor entablature has a prominent cornice.
The fourth storey of the pavilions includes pilasters, a central top balustrade, a continuous cornice and blocking course, and a parapet with carved pilasters above the pavilions. The building was empty at the time of the survey.
Local climate
The Turk's Head Hotel 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 2017
- 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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