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Latitude: 54.9646 / 54°57'52"N
Longitude: -1.6032 / 1°36'11"W
OS Eastings: 425501
OS Northings: 563404
OS Grid: NZ255634
Mapcode National: GBR SQR.PF
Mapcode Global: WHC3R.BGSX
Plus Code: 9C6WX97W+RP
Entry Name: Borough Engineering Department (III)
Listing Date: 13 January 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1248571
English Heritage Legacy ID: 430253
ID on this website: 101248571
Location: Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE8
County: Gateshead
Electoral Ward/Division: Bridges
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Gateshead
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Gateshead Team Ministry
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1. SWINBURNE STREET
5099
Borough Engineering
NZ 2563 5/114 Services Department (III)
II
GV
2.
The former Post Office. 1873-5. Tooled stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof
with corniced stone chimneys. Simple building with some classical detail. Three
storeys (the top one seems to be an addition) five bays and three-bay West return
to Swinburne Place. Rusticated ground floor up to impost string of round-arched
recesses framing round-headed windows and door at right. Moulded plinth. Pilasters
rest on ground floor entablature, frame round-arched first floor windows with
archivolts and key blocks, and support a cornice. Segment arched second floor
windows in raised surrounds. All windows sashes. Moulded and modillioned eaves
cornice. Included partly as one of the municipal group of buildings.
Listing NGR: NZ2550163404
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