Description

SOUTH STREET
1.
5191
(West Side)
Post Office
SY 6990 7/293
II GV
2.
1904-5. Architect: John Rutherford. Red brick with Portland ashlar dressings.
Pitched tile roof. 2 storeys. Full eaves entablature with modillion cornice
and blocking course. Roughly symmetrical about entrance on corner, which is
curved and crowned by ashlar parapet and green copper dome with finial. Door
with semi-circular fanlight,flanked by blocked Tuscan pilasters taking entablature
with pulvinated frieze, against which are placed blocked Ionic half-columns
taking simple consoles which support a nearly semi-circular moulded stone hood.
Above this are woords "Post Office" in contemporary brass lettering. On lst
floor are 4 very narrow sashes with glazing bars separated by Ionic pilasters
which take the eaves entablature. Corner bay is flanked by 2 bays with Portland
ashlar quoins, each crowned by open pediments with modillions. 1 range each
of sashes with glazing bars, those on 1st floor segment-headed. Ground floor
windows have stone aprons, moulded architraves, triple keys and segmental pediments.
1st floor windows have moulded sills, shouldered architraves, and segmental
cornices with triple keys breaking through them. The South Street elevation
has an identical bay at the opposite end to this. between them on ground floor,
is 1 huge sash window with glazing bars in segmental arch with moulded architrave
and triple keystone below which are the letter boxes. Above it are 6 sashes
with glazing bars joined by continuous moulded sill separated by Ionic pilasters
which take the eaves entablature. The other elevation, however, has 3 sashes
with glazing bars and a door with fanlight on ground floor, all with moulded
sills, architraves, and triple keystones. Above these 8 pairs of sashes with
glazing bars with moulded sills but plain ashlar surrounds. End bay on this
elevation has Portland quoins and parapet above eaves entablature. Door in
moulded architrave with pediment. 1 window on lst floor, with moulded architrave
and triple keystone.
Interior: Thomas Hardy designed the War Memorial Inscription (1920).
NB. Neo-Georgian extension on west side is not included.
Nos 1 to 6 (consec)South Terrace, Nos 37 to 41 (consec), No 40A, No 41A and the
Post Office form a group.

Listing NGR: SY6921990507

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 25 October 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514439

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