47a, Percy Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the North Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Military structure. 3 related planning applications.
47a, Percy Gardens
- WRENN ID
- guardian-balcony-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Tynemouth MP: Sir Alan Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1986
- Type
- Military structure
- Address
- 47a, Percy Gardens, NE30 4HH
- OS grid reference
- NZ 370 698
- Coordinates
- 55.02209, -1.42233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
47A Percy Gardens is a look-out post and gun emplacement built around 1916 for the army. This seven-storey tower is made of reinforced concrete and features a gun emplacement on the roof. The north face of the building has a plain boarded door with raised corners, while the main south front displays six-sided windows in round bays on the four upper floors. Inside, there is a concrete stair with an iron handrail leading from the ground floor to the roof space, although the trap-door to the roof is now blocked. It is historically noted that this structure was likely constructed after the German bombardment of the north-east coast, serving as a fall-of-shot tower and for range-finding of the guns at Tynemouth Battery.
Local climate
47a, Percy Gardens 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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