13, Sandhill is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1994. Office. 5 related planning applications.
13, Sandhill
- WRENN ID
- distant-floor-jet
- 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
- 25 October 1994
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 13, Sandhill, NE1 3AF
- OS grid reference
- NZ 252 638
- Coordinates
- 54.96884, -1.60735
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 13 Sandhill is an office building constructed in 1879 by Edward Shewbrook for W. A. Oliver. It is designed in a Free Baroque style, featuring sandstone ashlar and a Welsh slate roof with ashlar dressings. The building stands four storeys tall with attics and has five windows across its façade.
The ground floor showcases a rusticated plinth with fluted Doric pilasters that define the bays. The outer bays are narrower, each containing a low door; the left door is blocked, while the right door is a two-panelled design, topped with a pulvinated frieze and a segmented pediment. Above each door is an "oeil de boeuf" window, with the left one blocked and the right featuring glazing bars. The three inner bays have pilasters and archivolts framing round-arched openings. The right bay contains a 20th-century folding metal door, while the central and left bays have plain lights below transom lights with radiating glazing bars. Low basement windows in the plinth have shouldered lintels.
The ground floor entablature is adorned with a modillion cornice that supports the first-floor windows. All upper windows are fitted with wood mullions and transoms. The first and second-floor windows are framed in architraves with raised alternating pediments, and the outer bays project slightly, featuring fluted pilasters at each window. There is a sill string and cornice on the second floor. The top floor is characterized by fluted end pilasters, with Ionic half-columns framing round-arched windows that also have pilasters and archivolts. The outer bays break forward on curved stone brackets.
A wide top frieze with a modillion cornice sits above a deep fascia, decorated with swags in the outer bays, which also project forward. The attic storey features high segmental pediments over entablatures of square dormer windows in the end bays, and a swept parapet connects these to a tall central dormer. This central dormer is supported by Ionic pilasters and features a shaped gablet with an oval light. The roof is finished with stone gable coping and high ashlar end stacks.
Local climate
13, Sandhill 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.
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- 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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