Watergate Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Shops and offices. 5 related planning applications.
Watergate Buildings
- WRENN ID
- fading-hinge-marsh
- 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
- Shops and offices
- Address
- Watergate Buildings, 57-60, Sandhill, NE1 3RG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 251 638
- Coordinates
- 54.96835, -1.6083
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Watergate Buildings is a commercial property comprising shops and offices, built in 1830 with a later 19th-century addition of a top storey and the insertion of shops. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof. It is four storeys high and consists of 14 bays, with projecting end bays and intermediate bays curving around the corner. The ground floor exhibits channelled rustication and features shops with sashes, all set beneath an entablature with a dentilled egg-and-dart cornice. The upper floors have sashes in plain reveals; those on the first floor are tall with upper glazing bars, while the top two floors also have glazing bars. A band runs along the first floor, and a deep entablature and cornice are present on the second floor. The third floor features keyed raised surrounds to each end bay and at intervals in the intermediate bays. Pediments adorn the outer bays under a high, hipped roof. The central section has a low-pitched roof with ashlar chimneys.
Local climate
Watergate Buildings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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