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Borough Engineering Services Department (II)

A Grade II Listed Building in Bridges, Gateshead

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Latitude: 54.9647 / 54°57'52"N

Longitude: -1.603 / 1°36'10"W

OS Eastings: 425513

OS Northings: 563409

OS Grid: NZ255634

Mapcode National: GBR SQS.CZ

Mapcode Global: WHC3R.BGWW

Plus Code: 9C6WX97W+VQ

Entry Name: Borough Engineering Services Department (II)

Listing Date: 13 January 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1249017

English Heritage Legacy ID: 430252

ID on this website: 101249017

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

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Description


1. SWINBURNE STREET
5099
Borough Engineering
Services Department (II)
NZ 2563 5/113

II GV

2.
The former Public Library. 1885 by John Johnstone. Ashlar in an extravagant neo-
baroque style. Welsh slate roof. Two storeys and attic, five bays, the central
bay projecting under a shaped, pedimented gable with round-arched attic windows.
Flanking broken serpentine pediments have round windows, urn finials and carved
swags. Urns rest on parapet at ends and between gables. Heavy entablatures to
both floors, resting on end pilasters and (on first floor) paired pilasters between
windows. Carved friezes. Flat arched first floor windows, the central tripartite
and breaking the pediment of the entrance, which rests on two heavy carved brackets.
Ground floor openings round arched with archivolts, key stones with masks and
impost string; nook shafts to door. Ground floor rusticated with sunk apron panels.

Included partly for group interest with the remaining municipal buildings on
Swinburne Street-West Street.

Listing NGR: NZ2551363409

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