Borough Engineering Services Department (II)
BOROUGH ENGINEERING SERVICES DEPARTMENT (II), SWINBURNE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249017
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Borough Engineering Services Department (II)
- Statutory Address:
- BOROUGH ENGINEERING SERVICES DEPARTMENT (II), SWINBURNE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249017
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Borough Engineering Services Department (II)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOROUGH ENGINEERING SERVICES DEPARTMENT (II), 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 SERVICES DEPARTMENT (II), 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 25513 63409
Details
1. SWINBURNE STREET 5099 Borough Engineering Services Department (II) NZ 2563 5/113
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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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430252
- 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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