Post Office

BURNLEY

SD8332NE HARGREAVES STREET 906-1/15/70 (North side) 29/09/77 Post Office

GV II

Post office. 1900. By the Office of Works (special advisor, Norman Shaw); altered. Red brick in Flemish bond with liberal dressings of buff terracotta imitating stone, a plinth of grey granite, and a steeply-pitched roof of red tiles. Elaborate Flemish Renaissance style. Square plan with short rear wing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 3:3:3 windows, symmetrical except at ground floor; with a plinth grey granite, ground floor of terracotta "ashlar", 3 terracotta bands to each upper floor, a prominent modillioned cornice with egg-and-dart enrichment, broken in the centre by a tall steeply-pitched gable with flanking finials and finished with an open-segmental-pedimented feature. The ground floor has 3 round-headed openings in the centre, the 1st being a doorway with an elaborate surround including a granite architrave and a prominent segmental canopy carried on a pair of granite columns with Ionic sandstone caps, and the other 2 being windows with run-out voussoirs and elongated keystones; coupled square-headed windows flanking the centre, a single-light window to the right, and a smaller doorway to the left, all with Gibbs surrounds and this doorway with a keyed oculus above it. At 1st floor the centre has windows arranged 2:1:2 in an elaborate architrave with Ionic semi-columns and pilasters, and an open pediment to the centre containing a triple keystone enriched with a swag, and the outer bays have windows with moulded architraves with triple keystones and floating open pediments alternately segmental and triangular. The 2nd floor has smaller windows with similarly enriched architraves but no pediments. All these windows are sashed, with glazing bars. The central gable has 2 bands and a central cartouche containing an oval window; and is flanked by shallow flat-roofed 6-light dormers. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD8395232551