Balmbra's Music Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Public house, music hall.
Balmbra's Music Hall
- WRENN ID
- broken-garret-nettle
- 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
- Public house, music hall
- Address
- Balmbra's Music Hall, 6 and 8, Cloth Market
- OS grid reference
- NZ 249 640
- Coordinates
- 54.97071, -1.61184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Balmbra's Music Hall is a public house and music hall built in 1902 by A. Stockwell, originally known as the 'Carlton' Public House. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof. It stands three storeys tall with an attic and has three bays. The ground floor includes a recessed entrance on the right and a curved window with slender pilasters on the left, along with a bracketed entablature.
On the upper floors, there are narrow sash windows in the end bays and paired sash windows in the center, all framed by architraves. The first-floor end windows have pediments above them, and there are end pilasters. The cornice above the central window is adorned with dentils, and the top dentilled cornice projects forward over the panelled end pilasters.
Flanking the pedimented shaped gable is a pair of short pilasters topped with ball finials, which contain a keyed roundel. Below the roundel is a false segmental broken pediment, also featuring a central ball finial. The steeply-pitched roof is complemented by corniced end chimneys. Historically, this building replaced the 'Wheatsheaf' Public House, which was owned by a man named Balmbra in the mid-19th century and was notable for hosting the first performance of the song 'The Blaydon Races,' in which it is mentioned.
Local climate
Balmbra's Music Hall 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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