Description

DURSLEY PARSONAGE STREET
ST 7598
(north side)
5/47 Post Office
GV II

Post office 1936-39. Red English bond brick; ashlar limestone
dressings; green slate roof. Neo-Georgian. Two-storey with
attic. Three-storey wing to rear is not of special interest.
Front: 7-window with central doorway having stone entablature on
Tuscan pilasters; double small-paned glazed doors. Small-paned
metal casements to ground floor and to central upper floor window,
each with rusticated brick flat arches and jambs; central upper
floor window with keystone. Other upper floor sashes are 16-pane;
5 attic flat-roofed dormers with 12-pane sashes. Moulded eaves
cornice. Flanking walls extend front elevation and have stone
copings sweeping down from corners of building. Original lettering
in contemporary style attached to facade brickwork. Two upper
floor 16-pane sashes at north-west end; single upper floor 16-pane
sash at south-east end. A pleasing and little altered example of a
1930's Neo-Georgian public building having crucial townscape value
on a corner site.

Listing NGR: ST7542398211

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26515151

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living