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Head Post Office

A Grade II Listed Building in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.5654 / 53°33'55"N

Longitude: -0.085 / 0°5'6"W

OS Eastings: 526923

OS Northings: 409350

OS Grid: TA269093

Mapcode National: GBR WWV6.DM

Mapcode Global: WHHHS.NNQ1

Plus Code: 9C5XHW87+5X

Entry Name: Head Post Office

Listing Date: 17 November 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1379897

English Heritage Legacy ID: 479339

ID on this website: 101379897

Location: Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN31

County: North East Lincolnshire

Electoral Ward/Division: West Marsh

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Grimsby

Traditional County: Lincolnshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lincolnshire

Church of England Parish: Great Grimsby St Mary and St James

Church of England Diocese: Lincoln

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Description



GRIMSBY

TA2609SE VICTORIA STREET WEST
699-1/21/80 (South side)
17/11/95 No.64
Head Post Office

GV II

Post Office. 1910 by Office of Works. Portland stone facing.
Slate roof. Edwardian Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, 1:5:1 bays, the outer bays
narrower. Banded rustication to ground floor, giant order of
Ionic pilasters to upper floors. Projecting single-storey
central entrance porch has moulded plinth, cyma-moulded
architrave with blockwork rustication; entablature and hood,
with boldly projecting panel in frieze bearing relief
inscription "POST OFFICE". Side bays have round-headed
glazing-bar windows with bold aprons, corniced sills,
rusticated voussoirs, carved scrolled keystones and radial
fanlights. Matching fanlight above the porch.
First-floor string course.
First-floor windows to 5 central bays have aprons, sills,
architraves with keystones and modillioned hoods; outer bays
have plain windows with sills. Decorative fretwork grilles at
second-floor level. Taller second-floor windows in architraves
with sills and aprons with stylized guttae. First and second
floors have C20 uPVC windows with imitation glazing bars.
Pilasters carry scrolled brackets supporting a deep
modillioned cornice with panelled blocking course above.
Mansard roof; 5 central bays with 2-light dormers with glazing
bars beneath alternating segmental and triangular pediments.
Raised coped gables. Corniced end stack to right, plainer
rebuilt stack to left.
INTERIOR: ground floor, altered in late C20, retains pair of
World War memorial plaques.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 341; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.12; Grimsby Planning
Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: NO.12; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town
Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO. 18).


Listing NGR: TA2692309350


This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.

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