Head Post Office

GRIMSBY

TA2609SE VICTORIA STREET WEST 699-1/21/80 (South side) 17/11/95 No.64 Head Post Office

GV II

Post Office. 1910 by Office of Works. Portland stone facing. Slate roof. Edwardian Baroque style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, 1:5:1 bays, the outer bays narrower. Banded rustication to ground floor, giant order of Ionic pilasters to upper floors. Projecting single-storey central entrance porch has moulded plinth, cyma-moulded architrave with blockwork rustication; entablature and hood, with boldly projecting panel in frieze bearing relief inscription "POST OFFICE". Side bays have round-headed glazing-bar windows with bold aprons, corniced sills, rusticated voussoirs, carved scrolled keystones and radial fanlights. Matching fanlight above the porch. First-floor string course. First-floor windows to 5 central bays have aprons, sills, architraves with keystones and modillioned hoods; outer bays have plain windows with sills. Decorative fretwork grilles at second-floor level. Taller second-floor windows in architraves with sills and aprons with stylized guttae. First and second floors have C20 uPVC windows with imitation glazing bars. Pilasters carry scrolled brackets supporting a deep modillioned cornice with panelled blocking course above. Mansard roof; 5 central bays with 2-light dormers with glazing bars beneath alternating segmental and triangular pediments. Raised coped gables. Corniced end stack to right, plainer rebuilt stack to left. INTERIOR: ground floor, altered in late C20, retains pair of World War memorial plaques. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 341; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.12; Grimsby Planning Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: NO.12; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO. 18).

Listing NGR: TA2692309350

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.