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Latitude: 54.9636 / 54°57'48"N
Longitude: -1.6039 / 1°36'14"W
OS Eastings: 425459
OS Northings: 563286
OS Grid: NZ254632
Mapcode National: GBR SQN.XM
Mapcode Global: WHC3R.BHHQ
Plus Code: 9C6WX97W+CC
Entry Name: Post Office
Listing Date: 13 January 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1248572
English Heritage Legacy ID: 430257
Also known as: Old Post Office, West Street, Gateshead
ID on this website: 101248572
Location: Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE8
County: Gateshead
Electoral Ward/Division: Bridges
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Gateshead
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Gateshead Team Ministry
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Post office
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WEST STREET
Post Office
II
1897, HM Office of Works. Red brick, terracotta dressings, slate roof. Lively Renaissance style. Two storeys, three bays, the two at right projecting slightly under tall gable with foliage ornament and crown, ball finial. Very high pitched roof has tall chimneys with lesenes and stepped cornices. In left bay an eight-panel double door in moulded and chamfered frame with paired, trefoil-headed windows above under deeply moulded four-centred arch. Stone plinth. Mullioned and transomed windows, round-headed above, trefoiled below, have joggled voussoirs and irregular block jambs. Small hipped dormer behind battlemented parapet of left bay.
Plaque records this as the site of (the house of) Thomas Bewick, the celebrated engraver and illustrator.
Listing NGR: NZ2545963286
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