Students' Union is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Students' Union. 19 related planning applications.
Students' Union
- WRENN ID
- tall-rafter-alder
- 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
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Students' Union
- Address
- Students' Union, King's Walk, NE1 8QB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 247 649
- Coordinates
- 54.97891, -1.61499
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Students' Union building, dated 1924 on its tower, was designed by Cackett, Burns, Dick and McKellar for Armstrong College, which later became King's College, University of Durham, and is now part of Newcastle University. It is constructed of bright red brick featuring diaper work, with ashlar quoins and dressings. The building is designed in the Jacobethan style and has a basement and three storeys, arranged in an E-plan with a 1:7:1 bay configuration. The outer bays project forward, while the inner return contains three bays.
A prominent four-storey tower at the center features a keyed open arch in a Roman Doric porch supported by paired pilasters, topped with a parapet displaying coats of arms. The windows are stone mullioned and transomed, with irregular-block jambs, and include full-height canted bays with six lights at the projecting ends. Each floor is adorned with cornices, and the parapet is embellished with diabolo balusters. A small square turret with obelisk finials crowns the building, along with a high domed lantern topped by a ball and weather vane finial.
Local climate
Students' Union 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 — 19 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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