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.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660119

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