Description

LEEDS

SE2935 WOODHOUSE STREET, Hyde Park
714-1/24/880 (South side)
No.221
Post Office and Hyde Park Delivery
Office

GV II

Post office and delivery office. Dated 1906. Fine smooth
orange/red brick, Flemish bond, ashlar and carved stone
details, bronze fittings to doors, post box, stamp sales.
2 storeys, 3 x 3 bay front Post Office with angled corner
entrance bay on right; 8-bay single-storey rear delivery
office and service buildings range. Baroque Revival style with
plinth and quoins.
Front, right: paired 4-panel doors with bronze fittings,
small-pane fanlight, in pilastered surround with carved
lettering, on left 'ER VII' and on right '1906', open
pediment; segmental window above, parapet with carved scrolls
and swags. The 3 bays to left have entrance far left: panelled
door with 8-pane overlight in eared architrave with keystone,
paired small-pane sashes in similar surrounds centre, the
right window with postage stamp sales panel below; main office
window right of 3 lights in deeply recessed arch with
mouldings and keystone, the mullions ramped out to flank the
original posting box set in the wall below.
1st floor: sash window in eared architrave left, flanked by
pilasters, the left pilaster full-height, the right pilaster
rising from sill level to the brick bay-width parapet; 2
windows under deep eaves with scrolled wrought-iron gutter
brackets centre; on right a 3-light window (15-pane sash
flanked by margin lights) with Ionic columns, entablature and
deep segmental pediment enclosing a plaque, stepped gable
above. Large brick and stone corniced stacks to left and right
corners and paired stacks to rear.
Left return: the 3-bay main block has, on right, pilasters and
fenestration as front; 2 bays set back with small-pane windows
and shallow segmental gables; 5 three-light windows (16-pane
sash flanked by margin lights) to delivery offices, with
segmental arches to windows, door, window, and 2 tall windows
in gable far left.
Right return: post office block has door in stone keyed
architrave right, 3-light window with ramped mullions and long
keystone centre and left, and above with flanking pilasters
and brick parapet. An original moulded rainwater pipe to
centre of front and left return; the delivery office has

paired doors with overlight and 4 small-pane windows; 2
ventilators to ridge.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE2903235462

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547185

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)