Victoria Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Shop, office. 6 related planning applications.
Victoria Buildings
- WRENN ID
- winding-buttress-weasel
- 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
- Shop, office
- Address
- Victoria Buildings, 42-50, Grainger Street
- OS grid reference
- NZ 247 640
- Coordinates
- 54.9709, -1.61525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Victoria Buildings, located on Grainger Street in Newcastle upon Tyne, were built in 1874 by Matthew Thompson for Sir Walter Scott. These shops and offices are designed in an Italianate style and feature sandstone ashlar with a dark slate roof. The building stands three storeys tall with attics and consists of nine bays.
The ground floor has rusticated piers, with the centre right pier altered, and a central office door that has been renewed. A bracketed cornice runs along the top of the ground floor. The upper floors are adorned with pilasters; the end bays have fluted Tuscan Order pilasters on the first floor, framing arched windows that have shell-carved tympana. The paired central windows on the second floor are set under a round arch and feature lozenge ornament in the tympanum, while the other bays have plainer windows situated between wide pilasters topped with brackets leading to the cornice.
The attics at both ends and in the centre have one and three lights, respectively, with garland-ornamented pilasters beneath open pediments, and there are linking balustrades with urn finials. Some alterations were made to the ground floor around 1980.
Local climate
Victoria Buildings 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 — 6 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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