Former Library is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Library. 11 related planning applications.

Former Library

WRENN ID
crumbling-cobble-gilt
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
Library
Address
Former Library, University Quadrangle, NE1 7RU
OS grid reference
NZ 246 651
Coordinates
54.98024, -1.61596
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former library, now a university club, was built in 1926 by A. Dunbar Smith. It is constructed of English bond brick with decorative diaper work and features ashlar dressings, topped with a roof of plain tiles. The building has a basement and one high storey, with three bays; the outer bays project while the entrance bay is set back to the right. It includes a square-headed double door framed by an architrave and 7-light stone mullioned-and-transomed canted bay windows in wide bays. There are floor and eaves strings, and the parapet has moulded coping. The hipped roof is adorned with a central ventilator featuring an ogee octagonal dome and a ball finial.

Local climate

Former Library 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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