Former Valve House is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Storage building. 2 related planning applications.
Former Valve House
- WRENN ID
- mired-cobalt-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Storage building
- Address
- Former Valve House, Hexham Road, NE15 9DT
- OS grid reference
- NZ 152 669
- Coordinates
- 54.99675, -1.76354
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former valve house, built around 1870 for the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company, is now used as a storage building. It is constructed of snecked sandstone with pecked quoins and dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and features a lead ball and spike finial. The building is single-storey and has a square layout with one bay. On the east side, there is a diagonally boarded door set in a stop-chamfered surround. The south side has a square, renewed window with a flat stop-chamfered lintel and a projecting stone sill. The pyramidal roof has wide overhanging eaves.
Local climate
Former Valve House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 — 2 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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