BOROUGH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT (III)

BOROUGH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT (III), SWINBURNE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248571
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1983
List Entry Name:: BOROUGH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT (III)
Statutory Address:: BOROUGH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT (III), SWINBURNE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248571
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1983
List Entry Name:: BOROUGH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT (III)
Statutory Address 1:: BOROUGH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT (III), SWINBURNE STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BOROUGH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT (III), SWINBURNE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Gateshead (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 25501 63404

Details

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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Legacy System number:: 430253
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.