Newburn Road, housing department area offices

Council offices. 1910 by E. Cratney for Newburn Urban District Council. English
bond brick with ashlar quoins and dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof with
lead-covered ventilator and pediment. L-plan. Baroque style. Basement, 2 storeys
and attic; 5 by 3 bays and 9 in left return. Central 4-panelled double door and
overlight with diagonal glazing bars in stone Ionic doorcase with open and broken
segmental pediment containing tall cartouche with cipher of Newburn Urban District
Council. Wreath carving around double-keystoned architrave of window over door;
garlands flank bracketed keystone of roundel in open segmental pediment above.
Gauged brick flat arches, moulded stone sills and brick aprons to windows, all
sashes with glazing bars; narrow, spaced stone quoins from ground floor band to
modillioned eaves cornice. Hipped roof has domed and corniced square ventilator with
pilasters; 2 corbelled-out end brick chimneys with gabled buttresses; 3 rear
chimneys. Hipped roof also to 4 rear bays. LISTED GRADE 2