Former Department of Agriculture, Now School of Architecture is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Educational building. 1 related planning application.
Former Department of Agriculture, Now School of Architecture
- WRENN ID
- white-pillar-ivory
- 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
- Educational building
- Address
- Former Department of Agriculture, Now School of Architecture, University Quadrangle, NE1 7RU
- OS grid reference
- NZ 247 651
- Coordinates
- 54.97991, -1.61534
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Department of Agriculture, now the School of Architecture, is a university building constructed in 1913 by W.H. Knowles F.S.A. It is designed in a symmetrical Tudor style, featuring brown brick with ashlar dressings and a roof of plain tiles. The building has two storeys and attics, arranged in a 1:3:1 bay configuration, with the outer wide bays positioned under gables.
Access is provided by four steps leading up to a central open porch that has a moulded Tudor arch supported by a corbelled oriel. The windows are stone mullioned and transomed, set within irregular-block surrounds. The end bays are buttressed and include a central buttress supporting a corbelled first-floor oriel, while the gable peaks feature seven-light windows. Additionally, there are three gabled dormers and a roll-moulded continuous parapet. The building is topped with two tall stacks that have ashlar plinths and cornices, each with three chimneys. A panel in the porch notes that half of the building's cost was covered by Clement Stephenson and the other half by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Local climate
Former Department of Agriculture, Now School of Architecture 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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