Head Post Office

664-1/12/64 SD3317SE 15/04/98

SOUTHPORT

LORD STREET (East side) No.130C Head Post Office

GV II

Includes: Head Post Office ST GEORGE'S PLACE. Post office. 1901. By H Jansen of HM Office of Works. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Free Renaissance style. Irregular L-plan, formed by rectangular main range to Lord Street with larger ranges to rear. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and attic; 5 unequal bays. Symmetrical composition in which the broader second and fourth bays break forward above ground floor, framed by slender tourelles rising from corbels, and terminate in featured attic gables with pilasters and semicircular pediments. At ground floor, which is of ashlar, the 3-bay centre has large semi-elliptical arched windows treated as an arcade, with an enriched impost band and arch bands, and the slightly set-back outer bays have square-headed doorways and 3-light overlights. Both main upper floors have tall transomed and cross-windows, coupled in the second and fourth bays, and those at second floor are crossed by a continuous moulded band at transom level. A prominent cornice carries round the whole, and above this the gabled second and fourth bays each have a tall round-headed window with imposts and keystone, while the first, third and fifth bays have small dormers with steep hipped roofs terminating in finials. All windows above ground floor are sashed, and those to the attic have 6/6 glazing. Ridge chimneys. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with No.130 (National Westminster Bank) to right (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3376317379