Church House and Dwarf Walls in Front is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1976. Office.
Church House and Dwarf Walls in Front
- WRENN ID
- cold-column-equinox
- 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
- 29 June 1976
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Church House and Dwarf Walls in Front, Grainger Park Road, NE4 8SX
- OS grid reference
- NZ 227 644
- Coordinates
- 54.97418, -1.64691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House, now diocesan offices, was built in 1880 by A. Gibson. It is constructed of English bond brick with rendered eaves coving and has a roof covered in plain tiles, showcasing a Queen Anne style. The building has two storeys and three wide bays, with the outer bays projecting. There are three steps leading to a central double door, which is sheltered by a deep shell hood and flanked by keyed segmental-headed sash windows. Above, there is a tripartite window with narrow sashes on either side. The left bay features a blank ground floor and paired blind windows on the first floor, while the right bay has paired sashes with aprons on both floors, the lower ones having keyed segmental heads. The first-floor openings are adorned with flat brick arches, and there is a sill band and string course at this level. The eaves are coved with a dentilled cornice, and the hipped roof has lower hips over the projecting bays. Each outer bay contains a gabled dormer, and there are two hipped dormers in the centre. The building is topped with four tall, wide panelled chimneys that have deep cornices, with those in front featuring keyed arches. Dwarf walls with chamfered stone coping flank the steps leading to the door.
Local climate
Church House and Dwarf Walls in Front 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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