Borough Engineering Department (III)
BOROUGH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT (III), SWINBURNE STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430253
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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