Sallyport or Wall Knoll Tower is a Grade I listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1971. Gateway, meeting hall. 4 related planning applications.
Sallyport or Wall Knoll Tower
- WRENN ID
- turning-pillar-sparrow
- Grade
- I
- 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
- Gateway, meeting hall
- Address
- Sallyport or Wall Knoll Tower, Tower Street, NE1 2HY
- OS grid reference
- NZ 254 641
- Coordinates
- 54.97131, -1.6036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sallyport or Wall Knoll Tower is a Grade I listed structure located on Tower Street in Newcastle upon Tyne. This lesser gateway is part of the 14th-century Town Wall, with a meeting hall for the Company of Ship's Carpenters added in 1716. The building features coursed squared sandstone for the wall and sandstone ashlar for the hall, topped with a pantiled roof. It stands two storeys high and has two bays. The wall includes a central round stone arch that holds studded double doors with large hinges. Above, the meeting hall has two round-headed sash windows with glazing bars, set in panels with voussoirs and keys that continue with channelled rustication. The top cornice projects over the end and central pilasters. The roof is adorned with four square corner turrets, each topped with pyramidal stone roofs and ball finials. On the left side, there are steps leading up to a door with a fanlight featuring glazing bars, and above it is a low-relief panel depicting a ship's hull.
Local climate
Sallyport or Wall Knoll Tower 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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