Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1983. Post Office.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- young-gallery-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1983
- Type
- Post Office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 July 2023 to reformat the text to current standards
NZ 2563 5/120
WEST STREET Post Office
II 1897, HM Office of Works. Red brick, terracotta dressings, slate roof. Lively Renaissance style. Two storeys, three bays, the two at right projecting slightly under tall gable with foliage ornament and crown, ball finial. Very high pitched roof has tall chimneys with lesenes and stepped cornices. In left bay an eight-panel double door in moulded and chamfered frame with paired, trefoil-headed windows above under deeply moulded four-centred arch. Stone plinth. Mullioned and transomed windows, round-headed above, trefoiled below, have joggled voussoirs and irregular block jambs. Small hipped dormer behind battlemented parapet of left bay.
Plaque records this as the site of (the house of) Thomas Bewick, the celebrated engraver and illustrator.
Listing NGR: NZ2545963286
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