Sunlight Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Office. 4 related planning applications.
Sunlight Chambers
- WRENN ID
- broken-cinder-burdock
- 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
- Office
- Address
- Sunlight Chambers, 2-4, Bigg Market, NE1 1UW
- OS grid reference
- NZ 248 641
- Coordinates
- 54.9713, -1.61341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sunlight Chambers is an office building constructed between 1901 and 1902 by W and S Owen for Lever Brothers, designed in a modified Baroque style. The ground floor is made of sandstone ashlar and features a mosaic frieze, while the upper floors are painted rendered with ashlar dressings. The roof is covered with French tiles. The building has a basement, three storeys, and attics, with three bays on the front and five bays on the right side facing High Bridge.
A central entrance leads down steps to the basement. The door is framed by hollow-chamfered reveals and alternately-projecting blocks, topped with an ornamental iron grille in the first bay. The basement and ground floor windows have similar surrounds, with iron grilles on the basement windows. The ground floor frieze depicts themes of harvest and industry, and there is a modillioned cornice above the door.
The windows on the first floor are adorned with architraves featuring a pulvinated frieze and cornice, while the second floor has tall triple keys, all of which are sash windows with glazing bars. The building also includes pilaster strips, rendered eaves, and a frieze with swags linking the keystones, as well as an egg-and-dart-moulded cornice. Three flat dormers on the roof have similar sash windows.
Local climate
Sunlight Chambers 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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