General Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Post office.

General Post Office

WRENN ID
dark-wall-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1974
Type
Post office
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. 5111 FORSTER SQUARE BD1

General Post Office SE 1633 SE 37/150 28.3.74

II

  1. 1886, Sir Henry Tanner, architect (for the Post Office). Ashlar. Slate hipped roofs. Almost symmetrical front. Two-storeys and attics. Centre block 5 windows, centre in slight projection, ground floor rectangular openings with wide banded pilasters supporting continuous entablature across whole building at first floor level. First floor round-arch windows with keyblocks and continuous moulded impost the centre window flanked by paired pilasters, above the centre in roof is segmental pedimented gable with clock face, flanked by 2 small wooden pedimented gables, balustraded parapet and modillion cornice steep-pitched hipped slate roof with wooden bell- turret over centre. Flanking the centre block projecting 2-storey pavilions with ground floor entrances, wide modillion cornice and steep-pitched hipped roofs above main roof level. On either side there are 2 lower wings stepped back, of 3 and 2 window with mansard and hipped roof.

Listing NGR: SE1664633246

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