Scottish Provident House is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1971. Offices. 6 related planning applications.
Scottish Provident House
- WRENN ID
- under-timber-swift
- 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
- 17 December 1971
- Type
- Offices
- Address
- Scottish Provident House, 31, Mosley Street, NE1 1YF
- OS grid reference
- NZ 249 640
- Coordinates
- 54.97063, -1.61155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Scottish Provident House is an office building constructed in 1906 by S. D. Robbins for the Scottish Provident Institution. It is located on Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne and is built from Portland stone with a grey granite plinth and doorcases. The building has four storeys and a basement on the right, featuring ten bays and one curved corner bay on the left, along with a three-bay return to Cloth Market.
The corner of the building has a granite Tuscan porch with a recessed double door in a keyed surround, and there are two steps leading to a similar door in a pedimented doorcase in the eighth bay. The lower floors are rusticated, topped by a dentilled cornice on the first floor, while the upper section features a Giant Corinthian Order. The second-floor windows are adorned with balustrades in Ionic frames, which include pulvinated friezes and tall keystones, and the third floor has architraves. All windows are sash style.
The top entablature displays the name "SCOTTISH PROVIDENT INSTITUTION" in low relief. The building also features a roof balustrade and tall corniced ashlar chimneys. Additionally, there are tall wrought-iron gates at the corner door and iron guards on the ground floor windows. Historically, it is noted to have been the first 'gridiron' construction in Newcastle.
Local climate
Scottish Provident House 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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