Social Services Area Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Office.
Social Services Area Office
- WRENN ID
- heavy-niche-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend MP: Mary Glindon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1986
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Social Services Area Office, Station Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 299 662
- Coordinates
- 54.99036, -1.5331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Social Services Area Office, originally a vicarage, was built in 1903 on land given by G.B. Hunter. It is constructed of snecked sandstone with a plinth and ashlar dressings, topped with a plain-tiled roof. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a four by three bay layout along with a low one-bay pent extension on the left. The main entrance is a part-glazed double door set back under a keyed arch in the third bay. The first bay has tripartite sash windows, the second bay features canted bay windows, and the fourth bay has sashes above the door, all equipped with glazing bars. The right side of the building has canted bay windows flanking a blind ground floor and a first-floor sash. All windows have projecting stone sills and flat stone lintels. There is a floor band and a modillioned eaves cornice. The building also includes two hipped dormers with tripartite sashes, one of which has been altered, and one with smaller casement windows. Tall corniced chimneys complete the structure. It is included partly for its group value with the Church of St. Luke.
Local climate
Social Services Area Office receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Church of St Luke
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