Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW SHIP STREET
577-1/40/849 (East side)
13/05/91 No.51
Post Office
(Formerly Listed as:
SHIP STREET
Post Office)

GV II

Post office. The main building of c1925, but incorporating
parts of an earlier building of c1895; annexe to the south of
1849. The main building has a Portland stone front, red brick
and terracotta to gable ends, roof of tiles.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5-window range. The street front consists
of 5 equally- and widely-spaced bays; on the ground floor the
archivolts over the round-arched openings are linked by a
springing band, and the spaces between the openings are
treated as fielded panels; thus the ground floor reads as a
widely-spaced arcade. Flat-arched entrances in the outer bays
with a bolection-moulded architrave and glazed tympanum; the 3
windows between have metal glazing echoing the round arches,
altered in places. Moulded storey band incorporating a panel
lettered 'POST OFFICE'. The first-floor windows have a sill
band, architrave and cornice on consoles; cornice and
balustraded parapet; the south gable end, so far as visible,
consists of cornice, lunette (now blocked) and shaped gable
flanked by corniced stacks, all in red brick with buff
terracotta dressings; the north gable has an external stack
and one corniced stack, in the same materials.
INTERIOR: panelled vestibules; the main hall has square
chamfered columns now clad in wood; dentil details to framing
of the ceiling; broad wooden doorcases from the vestibules
with pulvinated frieze and segmental pediments; the doorcases
behind the counter have panelled pilasters and cornices.
Annexe to south: stucco, roof obscured by parapet. 2 storeys,
7- window range, the second and 6th bays from the main
building recessed and giving, though of unequal width, the
effect of a centrepiece and wings. Ground floor decorated with
banded rustication. Ground-floor openings round-arched and set
back under a round arch of plain stucco; springing band. Broad
entrance to first bay, and narrow entrance to 7th; sill band;
first-floor windows flat-arched with architraves and pediment
on consoles, except for tripartite window in second bay which
has a cornice on consoles pedimented only over the central
window; entablature and blocking course, the latter raised and
panelled over the centrepiece.

Listing NGR: TQ3099704216

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661073

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)