Old Customs House is a Grade II listed building in the North Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Office, former sailors' home.
Old Customs House
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-column-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Tynemouth MP: Sir Alan Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1986
- Type
- Office, former sailors' home
- Address
- Old Customs House, 65, Borough Road, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE29 6LH
- OS grid reference
- NZ 355 679
- Coordinates
- 55.00461, -1.44516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Customs House, located at 65 Borough Road in Tynemouth, North Shields, is a Grade II listed building dating from 1856, built for the 4th Duke of Northumberland. This structure features a basement and two storeys, arranged in five bays. The basement is constructed of ashlar stone with a plinth, while the upper floors are made of snecked sandstone. The roof is low-pitched and covered with Welsh slate.
Notable architectural features include tall voussoirs surrounding a double door with a fanlight in the sixth bay. The first-floor windows have moulded sills with architraves, friezes, and pediments, while the second-floor windows have projecting sills, all of which are sash windows with glazing bars. There is also one pedimented window on the ground floor in the left return. The building has a moulded plinth that is higher on the left side due to the slope of the site, supporting giant end pilasters. The eaves are adorned with a gutter cornice and a blocking course.
Local climate
Old Customs House 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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