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Latitude: 54.9647 / 54°57'52"N
Longitude: -1.603 / 1°36'10"W
OS Eastings: 425513
OS Northings: 563409
OS Grid: NZ255634
Mapcode National: GBR SQS.CZ
Mapcode Global: WHC3R.BGWW
Plus Code: 9C6WX97W+VQ
Entry Name: Borough Engineering Services Department (II)
Listing Date: 13 January 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1249017
English Heritage Legacy ID: 430252
ID on this website: 101249017
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: Architectural structure
1. SWINBURNE STREET
5099
Borough Engineering
Services Department (II)
NZ 2563 5/113
II GV
2.
The former Public Library. 1885 by John Johnstone. Ashlar in an extravagant neo-
baroque style. Welsh slate roof. Two storeys and attic, five bays, the central
bay projecting under a shaped, pedimented gable with round-arched attic windows.
Flanking broken serpentine pediments have round windows, urn finials and carved
swags. Urns rest on parapet at ends and between gables. Heavy entablatures to
both floors, resting on end pilasters and (on first floor) paired pilasters between
windows. Carved friezes. Flat arched first floor windows, the central tripartite
and breaking the pediment of the entrance, which rests on two heavy carved brackets.
Ground floor openings round arched with archivolts, key stones with masks and
impost string; nook shafts to door. Ground floor rusticated with sunk apron panels.
Included partly for group interest with the remaining municipal buildings on
Swinburne Street-West Street.
Listing NGR: NZ2551363409
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