Northern Gas Board Offices
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View from the north east with artificial lake in the foreground
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Office building to accommodate all the central activities of the Northern Gas Board (now British Gas) in parkland next to an artificial lake
Accounting, engineering, legal and administrative departments, which were previously scattered throughout Newcastle, were brought together in one building.
The building stands in parkland to the south of an artificial lake, which forms the centre of the new township of Killingworth, an extension of the main urban area of Newcastle.
The building is planned on two main levels, leaving most of the ground floor temporarily open, with 1000m2 available for use in the future without disturbing the remainder.
The steel frame construction consists of two-storey single bay secondary frames carried on bridge beams of 6.5m span, themselves carried on three-storey main frames. The two upper floors are clad with anodized aluminium curtain walling with infill panels of vitreous enameled steel sheet.
The building is now Grade II listed, and occupied by the Planning Department of North Tyneside Council.
Data
- Completed: 1966
- Sector: Office
- Address: NorGas House, Killingworth, Newcastle, NE12 6EH, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Ryder Architecture
- Project architect: Peter Yates
- Client: Northern Gas
- Consultant: R. W. Gregory & Partners
- Quantity surveyor: Martin Sheffield and Bristow
