Housing Department Area Offices

The Housing Department Area Offices, built in 1910 by E. Cratney for the Newburn Urban District Council, are council offices designed in a Baroque style. The building is constructed of English bond brick with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a graduated Lakeland slate roof that features a lead-covered ventilator and a pediment. It has an L-plan layout, comprising a basement, two storeys, and an attic, with a total of five bays on the front and three bays on the left return.

The central entrance features a four-panelled double door with an overlight that has diagonal glazing bars, all set within a stone Ionic doorcase. This doorcase is adorned with an open and broken segmental pediment that contains a tall cartouche displaying the cipher of the Newburn Urban District Council. The window above the door is framed by wreath carving around a double-keystoned architrave, with garlands flanking the bracketed keystone of a roundel in an open segmental pediment above.

The windows are fitted with gauged brick flat arches, moulded stone sills, and brick aprons, all featuring sashes with glazing bars. The building displays narrow, spaced stone quoins extending from the ground floor band to the modillioned eaves cornice. The hipped roof is accentuated by a domed and corniced square ventilator with pilasters, along with two corbelled-out end brick chimneys that have gabled buttresses, and three additional chimneys at the rear. The left return also has a hipped roof covering the four rear bays.