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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 March 2023 to correct date of build, and add architect and to reformat the text to current standards

SJ 67 SE
5/51

NORTHWICH C.P.
WITTON STREET (south Side)
No.110 Northwich Post Office

18/2/86

II
Post Office, (in 2023, public house), 1914, by Charles P Wilkinson of the Office Of Works. Subsidence-liftable small-framed timber structure with recessed plaster panels; tiled roof. Three storeys plus attic; five windows. Symmetrical, Elizabethan, lavishly ornamented. Four storey porch has double doors in Tudor archway with balustraded leaded overlight; paired pilasters carry, on shaped brackets, bressumer inscribed POST OFFICE in gilt Gothic lettering; ornate two storey oriel window; deeply jettied gable with mullioned and transomed casement. Left of doorway a mullioned and transomed casement and a Tudor-arched vehicular entrance to sorting office at rear; two mullioned and transomed windows right of doorway; two to each upper storey to each side of porch; four gabled attic dormers. Chevron and quatrefoil braces and ornate timber decoration to panels; coved plaster eaves; casements to front leaded. Plain small-framed end gables. Sorting office of plain framing with grey slate roof. Interior The frame is expressed.

Listing NGR: SJ6617474017

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26432023

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)