2-6, Nelson Street is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1965. Shops and houses.

2-6, Nelson Street

WRENN ID
dim-postern-dew
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
Shops and houses
OS grid reference
NZ 248 643
Coordinates
54.97337, -1.61386
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 2 to 6 on Nelson Street are shops and houses, now functioning solely as shops. They were built around 1836, likely by architect John Wardle for developer Richard Grainger. The buildings are constructed from sandstone ashlar and feature a Welsh slate roof. They rise three storeys, with a four-storey section on the right, and consist of eight bays in total. The ground floor has been altered.

The two right bays, which are four storeys high, have architraves around the windows on the upper floors, along with a frieze and cornice above the first-floor windows, and bracketed sills on the second floor, all beneath an entablature with a prominent bracketed cornice. The top floor features sash windows in plain reveals beneath a cornice and blocking course.

On the left side, there are six recessed bays with first-floor aproned sills and a second-floor sill string, all containing sash windows in plain reveals, some of which have glazing bars. These bays also have a first-floor band, a top cornice, and a blocking course. A later wrought iron gate is located in the first bay.

Local climate

2-6, Nelson Street 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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