Post Office (Former Tramway Offices)

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SK3536SW 893/1/10075

VICTORIA STREET (north side) No 4, Former Tramway Offices

(Formerly listed as Post Office (former Tramway Offices) VICTORIA STREET)

06-SEP-00

GV II Offices, Post Office at time of listing. 1903 with late C20 alterations. Designed by Alexander MacPherson for the Derby Tramway Co and built by Messrs Ford & Co. Red brick with ashlar banding and ashlar dressings, plain tile roofs and polished marble plinth. Four storeys.

Irregular facade with altered ground floor under projecting canopy. Original doorway to right in deeply chamfered ashlar surround topped with oval overlight and to right a small casement in ashlar surround. Left end has canted corner with panelled door in ashlar surround with two-light overlight and plaque inscribed TRAMWAY OFFICE topped by pediment with circular opening. Upper section has canted bay window topped with octagonal tower and copper domed roof. Main facade has three windows to left with three-light, single light and three-light casements to first and second floors. Above a set back balcony with a three-light window and scroll brackets with to right a four-light dormer window set in a hipped roof with octagonal cupola. To right two single light casement windows set at differing levels, this section topped with a gable and an elaborate Venetian window. Gable has ashlar coping and scroll kneelers with a segment pediment at the apex with a deeply set plaque inscribed 1903. To the right set at an angle a very narrow bay with a single light casement to each floor topped with an oval window with an elaborate ashlar surround.

Listing NGR: SK3519036170