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
Country: England
Date first listed: 13 January 1983
Type: Former Post Office
Source: Historic England listing

Description

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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