General Post Office With Basement Railings Norwich Union House

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SE2933SE CITY SQUARE 714-1/77/109 (West side) 22/03/74 General Post Office with basement railings (Formerly Listed as: CITY SQUARE The General Post Office)

GV II

Includes: No.10 Norwich Union House QUEBEC STREET. Post Office premises. 1896. By Sir Henry Tanner. Ashlar, slate and lead roofs; cast-iron railings. Classical style. Principal facade to City Square has a wide central bay of 3 storeys and attic, the ground floor rising through 2 storeys of the flanking 4-storey, 3-bay ranges; all over basements. Bays 1, 3, 5 and 7 project slightly and are topped by a small pediment flanked by octagonal domed turrets and tall corniced chimney with arched links; between are semicircular pedimented gables flanked with urns. Ground floor centre: a shallow splayed Roman Doric arcade of 5 arches, original wood-framed round-arched windows carved with Ionic columns; flanking entrances have paired Ionic columns and pediments over supported on console brackets with carved Classical figures holding writing instruments at sides. 1st floor divided by Corinthian pilasters, the centre 4 attached columns with sculpted draped figures representing Art and Science between 2nd-floor windows; 1st-floor windows have moulded architraves, segmental pediments and segmental bowed balustered balconies; 2nd-floor windows plain rectangular with flat pilasters between. Moulded cornices at each floor level; modillion eaves cornice and parapet; 5 wooden pedimented dormers. Tall slender clock tower centre, angle pilasters, pediments, corner urns, octagonal domed cupola. Left return, No.10 Quebec Street: plainer style, 3, 2, 3, 7, 3 round-arched windows to ground floor, the 3-window bays slightly projecting with pedimented gables; central pedimented dormer window flanked by corniced chimneys. Right return, Infirmary Street: gable end and 1 bay of original east wing remain; panelled door far right, attached columns support pediment. INTERIOR: Ionic columns with swags mirroring those outside. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to front, left and right returns: panels with scrolls and flowers, urn finials.

Listing NGR: SE2986433471