Head Post Office

The Head Post Office, built in 1910 by the Office of Works, is a 3-storey building with an attic, situated on Victoria Street West in Grimsby. It is constructed with a Portland stone facing and has a slate roof. The building is designed in the Edwardian Baroque style.

The external facade has 1:5:1 bays, with the outer bays being narrower. The ground floor features banded rustication, while the upper floors are characterized by giant orders of Ionic pilasters. A projecting single-storey central entrance porch has a moulded plinth, a cyma-moulded architrave with blockwork rustication, an entablature, and a hood, with a deeply projecting panel in the frieze bearing a relief inscription reading "POST OFFICE." The side bays originally had round-headed glazing-bar windows with bold aprons, corniced sills, rusticated voussoirs, carved scrolled keystones, and radial fanlights. Matching fanlights were positioned above the porch. A first-floor string course runs across the facade. The original first-floor windows to the central bays contained aprons, sills, architraves with keystones, and modillioned hoods, while the outer bays had plain windows with sills. Decorative fretwork grilles are located at the second-floor level. Taller second-floor windows were designed with architraves, sills, and aprons featuring stylized guttae. The first and second floors now have C20 uPVC windows with imitation glazing bars. Pilasters support scrolled brackets, which in turn support a deep modillioned cornice with a panelled blocking course above. The Mansard roof includes 2-light dormers with glazing bars beneath alternating segmental and triangular pediments. Raised coped gables are present, along with a corniced end stack to the right and a plainer, rebuilt stack on the left.

The ground floor interior was altered in the late 20th century but retains a pair of World War memorial plaques.