30, Grainger Street is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Commercial building. 6 related planning applications.
30, Grainger Street
- WRENN ID
- vast-joist-scarlet
- 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
- Commercial building
- Address
- 30, Grainger Street, NE1 5JG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 247 640
- Coordinates
- 54.9706, -1.61547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 30 Grainger Street is a commercial building constructed between 1884 and 1886 by John Johnstone for the Newcastle and Gateshead Gas Company. It is designed in the French Renaissance style and built from sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. The building stands three storeys high with attics and has a basement on the south front facing St. John Street. It features three wide bays on each side, plus an angled corner bay.
The ground floor has been altered on the west front to accommodate shop windows, and the central bay on both fronts projects forward with a two-storey rounded oriel topped by a balustraded parapet. This is supported by an elaborate three-stage pilastered gable that leads to a pavilion roof. The side bays have shallower square pilastered projections and smaller pedimented two-stage attic gables. The corner bay features an oriel supported by a heavy rounded and moulded corbel, rising to a dome with a smaller drum, dome, and finial above.
The building's horizontal stability is enhanced by banded rustication on the narrow wall spaces and by entablatures with panelled blocking courses at the floor levels. Each bay contains three or four plain windows.
Local climate
30, Grainger Street 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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