Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Town hall. 6 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- north-tower-wren
- 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
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall, High Street East, NE28 7RR
- OS grid reference
- NZ 303 664
- Coordinates
- 54.99193, -1.52645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, now serving as Borough offices, was built between 1907 and 1908 by architects E.F.W. Liddle and P.L. Brown for the Borough of Wallsend. It is designed in a Baroque style, constructed of bright red brick with an ashlar plinth and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring a copper corner turret roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of 11 bays, with the two bays on the right set back and two curved corner bays.
On the left side, one-bay pavilions flank a seven-bay section, which has a pedimented central bay. This central bay features a recessed round-headed double door and a balustraded balcony above, which is located under a tripartite window with a segmental arch and a tall double keystone. The borough arms are displayed in a panel above the door. The ground floor has round-headed mullioned and transomed windows, while the first floor features paired sash windows within architraves, supported by an Ionic Order and a balustraded parapet.
The flanking pavilions have similar ground-floor windows, with segmental-headed single sash windows on the first floor, each under a broken segmental pediment on brick pilasters. The two bays set back on the right have sash windows, and the two curved corner bays support a two-stage round turret with eight openings, an entablature on each stage, and a dome. A bracketed clock is positioned in the right pavilion. Additionally, there is a nine-bay return to Lawson Street, designed in a similar style.
Local climate
Town Hall 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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