2-12, Shakespeare Street is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1971. A Not specified Houses, shops, offices. 3 related planning applications.
2-12, Shakespeare Street
- WRENN ID
- secret-steel-ebony
- 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
- 17 December 1971
- Type
- Houses, shops, offices
- Period
- Not specified
- Address
- 2-12, Shakespeare Street, NE1 6AQ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 249 642
- Coordinates
- 54.97248, -1.61182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 2 to 12 on Shakespeare Street are houses that have been converted into shops and offices. They were built around 1836, likely by architect John Wardle for developer Richard Grainger. The buildings are constructed of sandstone ashlar and feature a roof made of Welsh slate. They rise four storeys and consist of nine bays.
On the ground floor, No. 10 retains its original eight-panelled door and overlight with glazing bars. No. 8 has a late 19th-century shop front with round-headed lights, slender pilasters, and carved spandrels, flanked by Tuscan pilasters. Nos. 2 and 4 have had their ground floors renewed. The ground floor includes a fascia and cornice.
The upper floors are adorned with sash windows that have glazing bars set in plain reveals. There is a string course at the second-floor level and a still string. A prominent cornice is present at the second-floor entablature, along with a top eaves band and cornice. The buildings feature a mix of brick and ashlar chimneys.
Local climate
2-12, Shakespeare 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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