Former Post Office

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SJ 9398, 1478-0/0/10001,

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, WARRINGTON STREET

No. 26, Former Post Office

(Formerly listed as: Post Office)

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Former Post Office. Dated 1891 off attic architrave; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof . Almost rectangular plan on corner site. Renaissance style. Two storeys and attic, 1:3:1 bays, the 5th breaking forwards slightly, plus a single-storey 3-bay wing to the left; with an interrupted battered plinth, ground-floor sill band; rusticated long-and-short quoins a panelled frieze and moulded cornice over the ground floor with three balustraded balconies, and an eaves frieze with nailhead panels between moulded brackets to a prominent moulded cornice. The 3-bay centre has a rusticated surround to a doorway and two tall windows (the doorway probably formerly a window, tile 1st window with wooden glazing bars holding a circular pane and the other with C20 glazing); at first floor a 3-bay balustraded balcony and three tall round-headed windows with architraves which have fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals, and cross-window casement glazing with plain fanlights; and an attic dormer with edited architrave. The end bay to the right, which breaks forwards, is featured, with a larger window at ground floor (with C20 glazing, and probably formerly the doorway), a balcony with urn finials, a 1st-floor window like the others but with a scallop tympanum, and an attic dormer with mullioned 2-light window in an elaborate pedimented architrave which has supporters with foliated cartouches, that to the right monogrammed "1891". In the bay to the left the lower window is like those in the centre, the upper like that to the right. The single-storey wing continued to the left has a doorway and two windows like the others at ground floor. The right-hand return wall (to Wellington Street), is in similar but simpler style. Interior altered.

Listing NGR: SJ9390999035