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
Address
Post Office, West Street
OS grid reference
NZ 254 632
Coordinates
54.96357, -1.60392
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office, built in 1897 by HM Office of Works, is a Grade II listed building located on West Street. It features a lively Renaissance style, constructed from red brick with terracotta dressings and a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with the two right bays projecting slightly under a tall gable adorned with foliage ornament and a crown ball finial. The roof is very high-pitched, topped with tall chimneys that have lesenes and stepped cornices.

In the left bay, there is an eight-panel double door set in a moulded and chamfered frame, with paired trefoil-headed windows above, all under a deeply moulded four-centred arch. The building has a stone plinth and features mullioned and transomed windows, which are round-headed above and trefoiled below, with joggled voussoirs and irregular block jambs. A small hipped dormer is situated behind the battlemented parapet of the left bay.

Additionally, a plaque on the site commemorates it as the location of the house of Thomas Bewick, the celebrated engraver and illustrator.

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