Borough Engineering Department (III) is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1983. Former Post Office.
Borough Engineering Department (III)
- WRENN ID
- fossil-tin-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1983
- Type
- Former Post Office
- Address
- Borough Engineering Department (III), Swinburne Street
- OS grid reference
- NZ 255 634
- Coordinates
- 54.96462, -1.60326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Post Office, built between 1873 and 1875, is a three-storey building located on Swinburne Street. It is constructed from tooled stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with corniced stone chimneys. The design is simple but includes some classical details. The building has five bays, with a three-bay return to Swinburne Place. The ground floor is rusticated and rises to an impost string that frames round-arched recesses containing round-headed windows and a door on the right. It has a moulded plinth, and pilasters that rest on the ground floor entablature frame the round-arched windows on the first floor, which are adorned with archivolts and key blocks. The second floor features segment-arched windows in raised surrounds, and all windows are sash types. The eaves cornice is moulded and modillioned. This building is included as part of a municipal group of buildings.
Local climate
Borough Engineering Department (III) receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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