2-8, Raby Cross is a Grade II* listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 2007. A Contemporary Post office. 2 related planning applications.
2-8, Raby Cross
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-hearth-thunder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend MP: Mary Glindon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 2007
- Type
- Post office
- Period
- Contemporary
- Address
- 2-8, Raby Cross, NE6 2AL
- OS grid reference
- NZ 271 642
- Coordinates
- 54.97186, -1.578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located at 2-8 Raby Cross in Newcastle upon Tyne, is a post office constructed between 1976 and 1978 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor, with Vernon Gracie as the site architect and structural engineering by White, Young and Partners. The main contractor was Shepherd Construction. The building features pale metric modular brick on a timber frame, with blue cladding on the first floor and red weatherboarding on the ground floor beneath the shop windows. It has a blue metal roof supported by plywood box beam purlins and is a single storey with deep eaves. The windows are made of timber. The interior is not of special interest. This block serves as a prominent feature at the entrance to the Raby Cross shopping area, which was developed at the southern end of the Byker estate due to its distance from the main shops on Shields Road.
Local climate
2-8, Raby Cross 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 — 2 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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