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Latitude: 55.7743 / 55°46'27"N
Longitude: -4.0378 / 4°2'15"W
OS Eastings: 272272
OS Northings: 655316
OS Grid: NS722553
Mapcode National: GBR 017N.MX
Mapcode Global: WH4QW.Y4F6
Plus Code: 9C7QQXF6+PV
Entry Name: Post Office, 24 Brandon Street, Hamilton
Listing Name: 24 Brandon Street, Post Office
Listing Date: 4 May 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 378811
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34543
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Hamilton, 24 Brandon Street, Post Office
ID on this website: 200378811
Location: Hamilton
County: South Lanarkshire
Town: Hamilton
Electoral Ward: Hamilton North and East
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Post office
Early 20th century. 3-storey, 3-bay, classically-detailed post office (formerly Hamilton Herald building). Red ashlar, channelled angle pilasters to 1st floor, steeply-pitched green slate roof, pyramidal to left and right with weathervane and spike finials. Plain frieze to 2nd floor with mannered curvilinear decorative panels to outer bays; wallhead frieze with decorative corbals; balustraded parapet with angle dies to outer bays; architraved windows with plate glass sahs and case frames. FRONT ELEVATION: slightly asymmetrical. Modern front to ground floor; 4-light canted window to 1st floor centre, single window to 1st floor with pilastered architrave and pediment rising through wallhead; slightly advanced bays to left and right, bipartite window to 1st and 2nd floor left, single window to 1st and 2nd floor right. INTERIOR: First world War marble memorial panel to members of Hamilton Post Office.
The illustratiuon in LANARKSHIRE ILLUSTRATED shows the building as the Hamilton Herald building.
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