Rocket Garage is a Grade II listed building in the North Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Garage.
Rocket Garage
- WRENN ID
- secret-trefoil-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Tynemouth MP: Sir Alan Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1986
- Type
- Garage
- Address
- Rocket Garage, John Street
- OS grid reference
- NZ 363 712
- Coordinates
- 55.0348, -1.43342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rocket Garage is a life brigade apparatus house, now serving as a garage, dating from 1867 as indicated above the door. It was built for the Cullercoats Life Brigade. The structure is made of painted snecked stone with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a graduated slate roof that features a tall brick chimney at one end. The building is single-storey and consists of one by three bays, with the gable end facing the street.
It has a double boarded door set in an elliptical-headed keyed arch with alternate-block jambs. Above the door, there is an inscribed stone scroll that reads: LIFE BRIGADE HOUSE/1867. A small chamfered pointed-arched niche is positioned above this inscription. On the right side of the building, there are two windows and one blind bay. The bargeboards are adorned with finials.
Historically, this was the second Life Brigade established in the country, formed shortly after the first one in Tynemouth in 1864. These brigades were instrumental in developing the technique of rescuing shipwreck victims by firing lifelines to distressed vessels.
Local climate
Rocket Garage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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