Quadrangle Gateway (The Arches) is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Gateway.
Quadrangle Gateway (The Arches)
- WRENN ID
- slow-minaret-moon
- 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
- Gateway
- Address
- Quadrangle Gateway (The Arches), University Quadrangle
- OS grid reference
- NZ 247 650
- Coordinates
- 54.97938, -1.61516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Quadrangle Gateway, also known as The Arches, is a Grade II listed gateway built in 1911 by W. H. Knowles for Armstrong College. It is constructed from dark red Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings and features a roof of plain tiles, designed in the Tudor style. The gateway has a gabled front that rises three storeys and consists of one bay. It showcases paired moulded arches with blind tracery above, which contains a statue of Edward VII in a central niche. Below the pierced parapet, there is a Gothic-lettered Latin legend in the frieze. The upper floors are recessed between wide full-height buttresses and feature a two-storey canted bay with large royal arms displayed in a panel between the floors. The windows are stone mullioned and transomed, and the structure is topped with a battlemented parapet that includes corner pinnacles.
Local climate
Quadrangle Gateway (The Arches) 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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