Gateshead, Swinburne Street, Post Office

HER Number:
8275

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Swinburne Street, Post Office

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Post Office

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
The former Post Office. 1873-5. Tooled stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof with corniced stone chimneys. Simple building with some classical detail. Three storeys (the top one seems to be an addition) five bays and three-bay West return to Swinburne Place. Rusticated ground floor up to impost string of round-arched recesses framing round-headed windows and door at right. Moulded plinth. Pilasters rest on ground floor entablature, frame round-arched first floor windows with archivolts and key blocks, and support a cornice. Segment arched second floor windows in raised surrounds. All windows sashes. Moulded and modillioned eaves. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2549

Northing:
6340

Grid Reference:
NZ25496340

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 5/114