Canopy Over Lifeboat is a Grade II listed building in the South Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1983. Canopy.
Canopy Over Lifeboat
- WRENN ID
- iron-bracket-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Tyneside
- Constituency
- South Shields MP: Emma Lewell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1983
- Type
- Canopy
- Address
- Canopy Over Lifeboat, Ocean Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 370 675
- Coordinates
- 55.00107, -1.42192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The canopy over the lifeboat, erected in 1894, is a Grade II listed structure. It features slender cast iron columns that support a hipped, tiled roof. The design includes elegant cast iron eaves brackets adorned with a honeysuckle motif.
Local climate
Canopy Over Lifeboat 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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