Gateshead, Swinburne Street, Municipal Buildings

HER Number:
8274

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Swinburne Street, Municipal Buildings

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Bank (Financial)

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Formerly the National Provincial Bank. 1871 possibly by Johb Gibson (architect to National Provincial Bank). Ashlar in Quasi-classical style. Two storeys, five bays on Swinburne Street. Three on left (East) return. Rusticated pilasters support entablature, with heavy modillion cornice and frieze inscribed: NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND, ESTABLISHED AD 1733. Unusual pierced parapet above. Flat arched paired upper windows, round arched ground floor windows with architraves, key and impost blocks, all with bracketed cills. Two doorways in similar openings. Included as part of group of municipal buildings in Swinburne Street - West Street. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2553

Northing:
6342

Grid Reference:
NZ25536342

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 5/111; Iain S. Black, National Provisional Bank Buildings in North-East England in the Later Nineteenth Century, Durham Archaeological Journal 17, pp 63-82