Union Club is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1965. Club. 4 related planning applications.
Union Club
- WRENN ID
- empty-truss-wax
- 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
- Club
- Address
- Union Club, Westgate Road, NE1 1TT
- OS grid reference
- NZ 247 639
- Coordinates
- 54.96993, -1.61492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Union Club is a club building dating from around 1874, designed by M.P. Manning. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof. This corner building is designed in the French Renaissance style and consists of three storeys and attics, with three wide bays.
The central bay has a double door and fanlight that are recessed behind an arch, with a cross window to the left. The outer bays feature flanking tripartite stone-mullioned windows and an entrance arch, all supported by brackets that hold first-floor oriels and a balcony above the arched recess over the door.
On the first floor, there are pilasters and a cornice, while the smaller second-floor windows are positioned under a cornice that is interrupted by half-dormers above the oriels. The dormers and a high panel over the central bay, which contains small windows, are adorned with consoles and raised pediments. Very tall pedimented chimneys flank this panel. The steep-pitched roof has hips that break forward over the end bays. The left return of the building, which faces St. John's Church, has a similarly ornate design.
Local climate
Union Club 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 — 4 applications
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- 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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