Newburn Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Pumping station.
Newburn Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- gilded-corbel-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Pumping station
- Address
- Newburn Pumping Station, Grange Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 159 655
- Coordinates
- 54.98465, -1.75215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Newburn Pumping Station is a pumping station built between 1854 and 1855, designed by engineer Robert Nicholson and constructed by R. Cail for the Whittle Dene Water Company. It is made of rock-faced sandstone with vermiculate dressings and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building consists of two blocks; the main two-storey block features two bays on the front and one high storey with two additional bays attached to the west. The ground floor has round-headed openings with alternate-block jambs and keystones, including a double door at the east end with diagonal boarding beneath boarded infill, and sills under flat stone lintels. There is an eaves band and gutter cornice, and the roof is hipped. The lower building is styled similarly. This pumping station was part of efforts to improve the water supply by sourcing water from gravel beds following the cholera epidemic of 1853.
Local climate
Newburn Pumping Station 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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