Description

YORK

SE6051NW LENDAL
1112-1/28/552 (South West side)
No.22
General Post Office

GV II

Post office. Dated 1884; late C20 alteration. By H Tanner.
Orange brick in Flemish bond on moulded plinth of sandstone
ashlar; frontispiece, dressings and copings of ashlar; slate
roof with terracotta cresting, brick panelled stacks and
ogee-capped cupola with finials.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 5-bay range, two intermediate bays gabled;
2-storey crosswing to right, 3-storey crosswing to left, both
gabled and projecting slightly; at left end, one 3-storey bay.
Plinth incorporates blocked square-headed basement openings.
Central 1-storey frontispiece framed in diagonally set
buttresses with corbelled-out heads beneath fascia with 'POST
OFFICE' carved in relief: original entrance, now blocked, in
segment-headed moulded surround ornamented with Tudor flower
bosses. Flanking windows and those on second floor are of 2
lights, intermediate windows on second floor rising into
gables. Original rainwater goods have blind Gothick-arcaded
hoppers on stone brackets. Ground floor of right crosswing
treated as screen of ashlar with stepped-up hoodmould. Doorway
has panelled double doors in moulded surround with 4-centred
head and foliate spandrels, beneath carved ribbon with incised
legend AD ERECTED 1884 and band of blind trefoiled panels. On
either side are tall 2-light windows. First floor window is of
3 lights, beneath stopped hoodmould and segmental relieving
arch. Left crosswing has ground floor windows of 2 and 3
cinquefoiled lights grouped beneath common hoodmould: on first
floor, 3-light oriel with moulded sill and cornice between
tall 1-light windows: on second floor, 5-light window beneath
stopped hood. End left bay has panelled folding doors in
square-headed hollow chamfered doorway with 4-centred arch on
2 orders of jamb shafts with moulded capitals and blind
traceried spandrels. First and second floor windows are of 2
lights, first floor one taller. Windows are mullioned, some
transomed, generally 1-pane sashes, in ashlar square-headed
quoined surrounds with sloped sills. Full width moulded string
and band beneath first floor windows. Moulded eaves coping
continued across left crosswing and end bay as second floor
string course.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE6013351937

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548821

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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