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
- Constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
- 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
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.
Local climate
Post Office 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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