Valve House West of Junction with Coach Road is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Utility building.
Valve House West of Junction with Coach Road
- WRENN ID
- steep-nave-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Utility building
- Address
- Valve House West of Junction with Coach Road, Hexham Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 152 668
- Coordinates
- 54.99595, -1.76276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This valve house, built around 1890 for the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company, is located west of the junction with Coach Road in Throckley. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick and features an ashlar-coped plinth, quoins, and dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate, adorned with roll-moulded ridge tiles, bargeboards, and wooden spear finials. The building has one high storey and is arranged in a 3 x 1 bay configuration. The east side has a double door set within a chamfered alternate-block Tudor-arched surround, and there are three tall windows with similar surrounds on each return.
Local climate
Valve House West of Junction with Coach Road receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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